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The best American science and nature writing 2020
Title:
The best American science and nature writing 2020
ISBN:
9780358074298
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Info:
Boston, Mass. : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Material Type:
Trade Paperback
Physical Description:
xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
Series:
Best American series

Best American series.
Language:
English
Contents:
A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Sleep no more (from Wired) / What remains (from The California Sunday magazine) / With a simple twist, a "magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta Magazine) / The eighth continent (from The New Yorker) / The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain signal that questioned free will (from The Atlantic) / Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Right under our noses (from Wired) / Beauty of the beasts (from The New York Times Magazine) / Ghosts of the future (from The Washington Post ) / Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / "We have fire everywhere" (from The New York Times Magazine) / Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / New blood (from The New Yorker) / The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / The final five percent (from Longreads) / The next word (from The New Yorker) / Troubled treasure (from Science Magazine) / The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta Magazine) / The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / The brain that remade itself (from OneZero)
Abstract:
A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest-edited by author and groundbreaking physicist Michio Kaku.
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