Each year Science magazine selects a scientific advance as the Breakthrough of the Year. Join us for a conversation with Science’s News Editor, Tim Appenzeller, who will discuss the magazine’s pick for 2021 along with nine other advances Science’s editors and writers considered especially important. It will be a tour through some of the hottest areas of research, in a year when Covid19 affected much of science worldwide.

As Science’s News Editor, Tim Appenzeller directs a global team of writers and editors covering scientific research and the international community of scientists. His previous positions included Chief Magazine Editor at Nature, Executive Editor at National Geographic, and editorial posts at U.S. News and World Report and Scientific American.

This talk is part of the Science and Society lecture series co-organized and moderated by Fred Dylla, Executive Director Emeritus of the American Institute of Physics and author of Scientific Journeys, Linda Dylla, former public information officer at the Jefferson Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy, and Colin Norman, the former News Editor at Science.

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