Strange Supernovae Upend Expectations
Most stars die in fairly predictable ways, but astronomers have discovered a growing catalog of unusual stellar deaths that challenge the traditional picture
Volume 323, Issue 6
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Features
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2020
Experts highlight advances with the potential to revolutionize industry, health care and society
Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us
Experts are figuring out how to exploit the 380 trillion viruses that make up the human virome
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Understanding how algorithm manipulators exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities empowers us to fight back
Hand Transplants Demonstrate the Nervous System’s Amazing Adaptability
A radical procedure restores touch and grasping in former amputees
World’s Largest Fusion Reactor Begins Assembly
The pieces are finally coming together on the long-delayed ITER experiment to create nuclear fusion
Departments
Advances
Electricity-Carrying Bacteria Lead to New Applications--and New Questions
Ultracold Molecule Mystery Solved
Chernobyl 'Exclusion Zone' Radiation Doses Reanalyzed
Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience
See Fast Radio Bursts Come of Age
Earthquake Sounds Could Reveal How Quickly the Ocean Is Warming
DNA Finds Pollutants in Green-Glowing Water Test
In Case You Missed It
Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping
Policy
Sharing the Human Side of Science
Readers Respond to the August 2020 Issue
Take Racism Out of Medical Algorithms
To Understand How Science Denial Works, Look to History
Acknowledging Reality Is an Excellent Way to Function within It
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: December 2020
Conservation
An Ambitious Strategy to Preserve Biodiversity
Space & Physics
Poem: Staring at Nothing
Mental Health
The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID
Culture
The Grim Politics of Ebola, a Theory of Time, and Racism and Organ Transplants
Natural Disasters