Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Matt Cardy/Getty Images, Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images, Prisma Bildagentur/UIG via Getty Images, Equinac/Barcroft Images/Getty Images. It’s Top 10 season at Slate, with all the usual enumerations. We’ve got lists of the year’s 10 best books, 10 best jazz albums, 10 best TV shows, 10 best movies, 10 best albums that…


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As science journalists, we cover a huge range of phenomena — from the minute to the outer reaches of the universe. But the best stories of 2018 all had one thing in common: They hit us in the gut with a sense of awe.


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Scientists could offer advice to lawmakers' solutions to a range of issues.Credit: Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Spain is set to get an official science advisory panel that will gather evidence on a range of technical and social issues for its lawmakers.


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Nothing makes headlines like the latest medical breakthrough. The heroic work of researchers should lead the news when it fundamentally changes our world and prospects for improved health. However, it can often be difficult to sort good science from bad.


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Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human. That misanthropy has also seeped into science. Vivid case in point: Science, one of the world’s most prominent scientific journals, just published a screed directed against anti-human exceptionalism. The author, Eileen Crist, has a PhD in sociology, not in any of the natural sciences. She writes to warn that the…


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