Preface : the edge question / by John Brockman --
Human progress quantified / Steven Pinker --
Doing more with less / Freeman Dyson --
The "specialness" of humanity / Kurt Gray --
J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology / Stuart Pimm --
Leaking, thinning, sliding ice / Laurence C. Smith --
Glaciers / Robert Trivers --
Our collective blind spot / Jennifer Jacquet --
Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs / Bill Joy --
A call to action / Hans Ulrich Obrist --
A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century / Koo Jeong-A --
The greatest environmental disaster / Richard Muller --
Technobiophilic cities / Scott Sampson --
LENR could supplant fossil fuels / Carl Page --
Emotions influence environmental well-being / June Gruber --
Global warming redux : a serious challenge to our species / Milford H. Wolpoff --
Blue marble 2.0 / Giulio Boccaletti --
High-tech stone age / Tor Nørretranders --
The dematerialization of consumption / Rory Sutherland --
Science made this possible / Bruce Parker --
The brain is a strange planet / Dustin Yellin --
The abdication of spacetime / Donald D. Hoffman --
The news that wasn't there / Antony Garrett Lisi --
No news is astounding news / Lee Smolin --
One hundred years of failure / Seth Lloyd --
Hope beyond the Higgs Boson / Sarah Demers --
An unexpected, haunting signal / Gerald Holton --
News about how the physical world operates / Leonard Susskind --
Unpublicized implications of Hawking black-hole evaporation / Frank Tipler --
The energy of nothing / Andrei Linde --
The big bang cannot be what we thought it was / Paul J. Steinhardt --
Anomalies / Stephon H. Alexander --
Looking where the light isn't / Brian G. Keating --
Simplicity / Neil Turok --
The LHC is working at full energy / Gordon Kane --
New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime
Supermassive black holes / Jeremy Bernstein --
Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies / Carlo Rovelli --
The universe is infinite / Rudy Rucker --
Advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo / Paul Davies --
The news is not the news / Frank Wilczek --
We know all the particles and forces we're made of / Sean Carroll --
Computational complexity and the nature of reality / Amanda Gefter --
Einstein was wrong / Hans Halvorson --
Replacing magic with mechanism? / Ross Anderson --
Quantum entanglement is independent of space and time / Anton Zeilinger --
Breakthroughs become part of the culture / Lisa Randall --
Space exploration, new and old / Robert Provine --
Pluto is a bump in the road / Nicholas A. Christakis --
Pluto now, then on to 550 AU / Gregory Benford --
The universe surprised us, close to home / Lawrence M. Krauss --
Progress in rocketry / George Dyson --
The space age takes off ... and returns to Earth again / Peter Schwartz --
How widely should we draw the circle? / Scott Aaronson --
A new algorithm showing what computers can and cannot do / John Naughton --
Designer humans / Mark Pagel --
Cellular alchemy / Roger Highfield --
A terrible beauty has been born / Randolph Nesse --
DNA programming / Paul Dolan --
Human chimeras / David Haig --
The race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering / John Tooby --
The ongoing battles with pathogens / Robert Kurzban --
Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! / Aubrey De Grey --
The 6 billion letters of our genome / Eric Topol, M.D. --
Systems medicine / Stuart A. Kauffman --
Growing a brain in a dish / Simon Baron-Cohen --
Self-driving genes are coming / Stewart Brand --
Life diverging / Juan Enriquez --
Fundamentally newsworthy / Stuart Firestein --
Paleo-DNA and de-extinction / W. Tecumseh Fitch --
The wisdom race is heating up / Max Tegmark --
Tabby's star / Yuri Milner --
Extraterrestrials don't land on Earth! / David Christian --
We are not unique, but we are very much alone / Andrian Kreye --
Breakthrough listen / Martin J. Rees --
Life in the Milky Way / Mario Livio --
There is (already) life on Mars / Michael I. Norton --
The breathtaking future of a connected world / Chris J. Anderson --
Everything is computation / Joscha Bach --
Identifying the principles, perhaps the laws, of intelligence / Pamela McCorduck --
Neuro-news / Noga Arikha --
Microbial attractions / Pamela Rosenkranz --
The epidemic of absence / Matt Ridley --
Bugs R Us / Nina Jablonski --
Fecal microbiota transplants / Joichi Ito --
The anti-democratic trend / Dirk Helbing --
The age of awareness / Quentin Hardy --
A large-scale personality research method / Nathalie Nahai --
The conquest of human scale / Charles Seife --
Big data and better government / Margaret Levi --
This is the science-news essay you want to read / Marti Hearst --
Those annoying ads? The harbinger of good things to come / Roger Schank --
Biology versus choice / Thalia Wheatley --
How to be bad together / Gloria Origgi --
Psychology's crisis / Ellen Winner --
The truthiness of scientific research / Judith Rich Harris --
Blinded by data / Gary Klein --
The epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology / Philip Tetlock --
Science itself / Paul Bloom --
A compelling explanation for scientific misconduct / Leo M. Chalupa --
Sub-prime science / Nicholas Humphrey --
The infancy of meta-science / Jonathan Schooler --
The disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans / Richard Nisbett --
Inequality of wealth and income : a runaway process / S. Abbas Raza --
The age of visible thought / Peter Gabriel --
Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human / Howard Gardner --
Complete head transplants / Kai Krause --
The en-gendering of genius / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein --
Diversity in science / Gino Segre --
The democratization of science / Michale Shermer --
News about science news / Sheizaf Rafaeli --
The broadening scope of science / Tania Lombrozo --
Q-bio / Nigel Goldenfeld --
Mathematics and reality / Clifford Pickover --
Synthetic learning / Kevin Kelly --
A genuine science of learning / Keith Devlin --
Bayesian program learning / John C. Mather --
FSM (feces-standard money) / Jaeweon Cho --
The ironies of higher arithmetic / Jim Holt --
Broke people ignoring $20 bills on the sidewalk / Michael Vassar --
We fear the wrong things / David G. Myers --
Living in terror of terrorism / Gerd Gigerenzer --
The state of the world isn't as bad as you think / Steven R. Quartz --
The healthy diet u-turn / Ed Regis --
Fatty foods are good for your health / Peter Turchin --
Partisan hostility / Jonathan Haidt --
Cognitive science transforms moral philosophy / Stephen P. Stich --
Morality is made of meat / Oliver Scott Curry --
People kill because it's the right thing to do / James J. O'Donnell --
Interdisciplinary social research / Ziyad Marar --
Intellectual convergence / Adam Alter --
Weapons technology powered human evolution / Timothy Taylor --
The immune system : a grand unifying theory for biomedical research / Buddhini Samarasinghe --
Harnessing our natural defenses against cancer / Michael E. Hochberg --
Cancer drugs for brain diseases / Todd C. Sacktor --
The most powerful carcinogen may be entropy / George Johnson --
The decline of cancer / A.C. Grayling --
The mating crisis among educated women / David M. Buss --
The most important x ... y ... z ... / Jared Diamond --
The mother of all addictions / Helen Fisher --
The trust metric / John Gottman --
Optogenetics / Christian Keysers --
The state of brain science / Terrence J. Sejnowski --
Nootropic neural news / George Church --
Memory is a labile fabrication / Kate Jeffery --
The continually new you / Stephen M. Kosslyn --
Toddlers can master computers / Alison Gopnik --
The predictive brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett --
A new imaging tool / Alun Anderson --
Sensors : accelerating the pace of scientific discovery / Paul Saffo --
3D printing in the medical field / Syed Tasnim Raza --
Deep science / Brian Knutson --
A world that counts / Alex (Sandy) Pentland --
Programming reality / Neil Gershenfeld --
Pointing is a prerequisite for language / N.J. Enfield --
Macro-criminal networks / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán --
Virtual reality goes mainstream / Thomas Metzinger --
The twin tides of change / Timo Hannay --
Imaging deep learning / Andy Clark --
The neural net reloaded / Jamshed Bharucha --
Differentiable programming / David Dalrymple --
Deep learning, semantics, and society / Steve Omohundro --
Seeing our cyborg selves / Thomas A. Bass --
The rejection of science itself / Douglas Rushkoff --
Re-thinking artificial intelligence / Rodney A. Brooks --
I, for one / Joshua Bongard --
Data sets over algorithms / Alexander Wissner-Gross --
Biological models of mental illness reflect essentialist biases / Bruce Hood --
Neuroprediction / Abigail Marsh --
The thin line between mental illness and mental health / Joel Gold --
Theodiversity / Ara Norenzayan --
Modernity is winning / Gregory Paul --
Religious morality is mostly below the belt / Michael McCullough --
A science of the consequences / Luca De Biase --
Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society / David Berreby --
Interconnectedness / Irene Pepperberg --
Early life adversity and collective outcomes / Linda Wilbrecht --
We're still behind / Mary Catherine Bateson --
Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit / Daniel Goleman --
Send in the drones / Diana Reiss --
That dress / Susan Blackmore --
Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy / Eric R. Weinstein --
The origin of Europeans / Gregory Cochran --
The platinum rule : dense, heavy, but worth it / Hazel Rose Markus --
Adjusting to feathered dinosaurs / John McWhorter --
People are animals / Laura Betzig --
The longevity of news / Diana Deutsch --
Weather prediction has quietly gotten better / Samuel Arbesman --
The word : first as art, then as science / Brian Christian --
The convergence of images and technology / Victoria Wyatt --
The mindful meeting of minds / Christine Finn --
Carpe diem / Ernst Pöppel --
Linking the levels of human variation / Elizabeth Wrigley-Field --
Challenging the value of a university education / Steve Fuller --
The hermeneutic hypercycle / Maximilian Schich --
Rethinking authority with the blockchain crypto enlightenment / Melanie Swan --
Envoi : we may all die horribly / Robert Sapolsky.
