Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately a few of this year’s top stories from our online news site,like ones on a major error in the monarch butterfly biological record and using massive balloons to build tunnels, and why they were chosen. Hint: It’s not just the stats.
Sarah also interviews Staff Writer Adrian Cho approximately the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. Adrian talks approximately why Science gave the nod to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team for a moment year in a row—for the detection of a pair of merging neutron stars.
Jen Golbeck is also back for the final book review segment of the year. She talks with Sarah approximately her first year on the show, or her favorite books,what we should possess covered, and some suggestions for books as gifts.
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Source: sciencemag.org