Author Description

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.