Lee Billings is editor of Scientific American and author of Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars (Current, 2013) based in New York, New York.
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The Best Science Books Of 2016
Time travel, microbes, black holes, and polar bears.
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Crowdsourcing Planetary Names, Female ‘Viagra,’ and a Vomit Machine
BuzzFeed News science editor Virginia Hughes shares her top stories from this week in science, and Scientific American editor Lee Billings discusses crowdsourced planetary names.
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Throw These Science Books in Your Beach Bag
Maria Popova and Lee Billings share their summer reading picks.
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Your Summer Science Book List
Lee Billings and Maria Popova compile your perfect summer science book list.