The Billion-Year Wave
The inside story of how scientists finally proved that gravitational waves exist.
Longform Best of 2016
We recommended 1,399 articles articles this year, from 1,088 writers and 307 publications.
These were our favorites.
Science
1
2
The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community
How a British maverick harnessed crowdsourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky.
3
The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future
Susie McKinnon cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to aging. She has no core memories. And yet she knows who she is.
4
Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation
How animals see.
5
Ruffled Feathers
The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.
