The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020

Foreword –Introduction –A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) /Ross Andersen –Sleep no more (from Wind) /Kelly Clancy –What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) /Daniel Duane –With a simple twist, a Magic material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) /David H. Freedman –The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) /Rivka Galchen –The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) /Bahar Gholipour –Younger longer (from The New Yorker) /Adam Gopnik –Right under our noses (from Wires) /Sara Harrison — I, language robot (from Los Angeles review of books) /Patrick House –Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazines) /Ferris Jarr –Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post ) /Sarah Kaplan –Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from New Yorker) /Adam Mann — Total eclipse (From Aeon) /Deanna Csomo McCool –We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) /Jon Mooallem –Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) /Melinda Wenner Moyer –New blood (from the New Yorker) /Siddhartha Mukherjee –The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) /Douglas Preston –The final five percent (from Longreads) /Tim Requarth –The next word (from The New Yorker) /John Seabrook –Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) /Joshua Sokol –The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) /Joshua Sokol –The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) /Shannon Stirone –A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) /Natalie Wolchover –The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) /Andrew Zaleski.