FEATURES
The past year unfolded like a dark satire: natural disasters, racial violence and the virus that would not quit. To set the stage for
2021, we turned to experts. Here’s their mile-high view of coronavirus and the biggest science stories it eclipsed in 2020.
COVID
All Eyes on COVID
ANNA FUNK
The Social Symptoms of COVID-19
ALEX ORLANDO
Did COVID Heal Nature?
KATE GOLEMBIEWSKI
The Virus That Changed Science
ALLISON WHITTEN
RACISM: AN INSIDE LOOK
Black in Academia
CYDNEY H. DUPREE
EXPEDITION
One Giant Leap for Space Travel
ERIC BETZ
The World’s Biggest Polar Expedition
TOM YULSMAN
Strange Space Signals
STEPHEN ORNES
THE BODY
CRISPR Gets Under the Skin
NATHANIEL SCHARPING
New Hope in Fighting Food Allergies
KENNETH MILLER
Dawn of the Stem Cell Revolution?
KENNETH MILLER
Editing the Mitochondria
NATHANIEL SCHARPING
UNEARTHED
A Water-Dwelling Dino, Lost and Found
RILEY BLACK