Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Introduction xv
A Journey into the Animal Mind Ross Andersen 1
From The Atlantic
Sleep No More Kelly Clancy 15
From Wired
What Remains Daniel Duane 30
From The California Sunday Magazine
With a Simple Twist, a "Magic" Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics David H. Freedman 40
From Quanta Magazine
The Eighth Continent Rivka Galchen 49
From The New Yorker
The Tumultuous History of a Mysterious Brain Signal That Questioned Free Will Bahar Gholipour 64
From The Atlantic
Younger Longer Adam Gopnik 71
From The New Yorker
Right Under Our Noses Sara Harrison 86
From Wired
I, Language Robot Patrick House 100
From Los Angeles Review of Books
Beauty of the Beasts Ferris Jabr 109
From The New York Times Magazine
Ghosts of the Future Sarah Kaplan 127
From The Washington Post
Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials Adam Mann 133
From The New Yorker
Total Eclipse Deanna Csomo McCool 141
From Aeon
"We Have Fire Everywhere" Jon Mooallem 150
From The New York Times Magazine
Vaccines Reimagined Melinda Wenner Moyer 177
From Scientific American
New Blood Siddhartha Mukherjee 190
From The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died Douglas Preston 210
From The New Yorker
The Final Five Percent Tim Requarth 235
From Longreads
The Next Word John Seabrook 252
From The New Yorker
Troubled Treasure Joshua Sokol 276
From Science Magazine
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos Joshua Sokol 288
From Quanta Magazine
The Hunt for Planet Nine Shannon Stirone 297
From Longreads
A Different Kind of Theory of Everything Natalie Wolchover 319
From The New Yorker
The Brain That Remade Itself Andrew Zaleski 324
From OneZero
Contributors' Notes 335
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2019 339
