GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters
It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability
Volume 323, Issue 2
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Features
Galileo’s Lessons for Living and Working through a Plague
An outbreak in Italy in the 1630s forced him to find new ways of doing his research and connecting with his family
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
Lobsters, birds and some primates use quarantine to ward off infections
How Oak Trees Evolved to Rule the Forests of the Northern Hemisphere
Genomes and fossils reveal their remarkable evolutionary history
How Scientists Solved One of the Greatest Open Questions in Quantum Physics
The story of a macroscopic quantum system and a mathematical odyssey
Humans Evolved to Be Friendly
Cooperation made Homo sapiens the last human species standing
How Climate Change Strategies That Use Biomass Can Be More Realistic
Current plans for drawing down carbon dioxide call for more trees, grasses and crop residues than Earth can spare
Departments
Advances
Model Suggests Toxic Transformation on Venus
Buried Skeletons Reveal Tsunami Threat in East Africa
Red Stalagmites Reveal Glimpses of the Past
Construction Process Builds Brain Circuits
In Case You Missed It
Lidar Advances Show Mosquito Rush Hours
Pill Takes the Bite Out of Viper Venom
Blood Test Allows Safer Turtle Sex Determination
Expanding Paved Areas Has an Outsize Effect on Urban Flooding
Invisible Qualities such as 'Hardness' Can Pinpoint Objects
Public Health
Quarantine Lessons from Lobsters, Guppies, Finches and Galileo
Too Many Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19
Why Some Male Leaders Won't Follow COVID-19 Safety Protocols
Space & Physics
Readers Respond to the April 2020 Issue
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: August 2020
Culture
Gravitational Waves and the Poetry of Blackfoot
A New View of Sexual Harassment in the Sciences
Mental Health
Another Tragic Epidemic: Suicide
Policy
The False Logic behind Science Denial
Behavior
Our Temporary Moratorium against Handshakes Should Become Permanent
Natural Disasters