The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020
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Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth
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Falcon 9 launches "Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" ocean science satellite, lands Falcon 9 first stage back at Vandenberg SLC-4E
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YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
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The last children of Down Syndrome
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The Coronavirus is airborne indoors. Why are we still scrubbing surfaces?
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The pandemic, the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement: US emissions drop 7% year on year due to effects of COVID-19
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You know that NYC pizza rat? Here's his story.
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Canada housing squeeze: Buyers moving up 'handcuffed' by hard-to-sell condos
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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Bankers in Denmark see surge in threats from angry clients – finance industry is struggling to regain the public's trust after a string of scandals
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How Ticketmaster plans to check your vaccine status for concerts
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 with new GEM-36 solid rocket boosters launches NROL-101 satellite
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Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves
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Winners of the close-up photography contest
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Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
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"The intelligence coup of the century" - For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries
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Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
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Why we should think twice about colonizing space
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The FBI says ‘Boogaloo’ extremists bought 3D-printed machine gun parts
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A look at the future of abortion from Colorado
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Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
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The world's largest camera and most exciting telescope are nearly here
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The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die?
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Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
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Scientists know masks limit the coronavirus’s spread, but it’s impossible for randomized trials to prove that
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Oregon legalizes psilocybin mushrooms (for therapeutic purposes) and decriminalizes all drugs
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Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
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Japan’s elderly online shoppers are running into trouble
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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The Fed is really running out of firepower
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It’s 2020. Why do printers still suck?
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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
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Coding human data into microbes that will survive for millions of years
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How eugenics shaped statistics
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Denmark has lashed out against the EU's plan to establish a minimum wage, arguing it would undermine a national labor-market model that's popular with unions and employers
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SpaceX reveals monthly cost of Starlink internet in its "Better Than Nothing Beta"
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Why astrology matters
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Harvard’s Chetty finds economic carnage for the poorest in the wealthiest ZIP codes
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Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal
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Sanna Marin, Finland's fearless prime minister, is challenging sexism in politics
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Black players continued a mentoring tradition amid a US pandemic
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Arlo Guthrie retires from touring: ‘It’s time to hang up the gone fishing sign’
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As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place
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Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
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James Randi, magician and paranormal debunker, dies at 92
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Scientists discover new human salivary glands
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