8 history-making space stories of 2020
It’s been a hard year on Earth. But despite a global pandemic, scientists made huge strides in understanding the universe beyond our planet. They detected far-off signals, launched astronauts into…
Fly into the best longreads of 2020
In 2005, when The Office was struggling to escape the shadow of the British version, establish a fanbase, and earn ratings worthy of future season renewals, the cast members, writers,…
20 really good things that happened in 2020
By now it’s an article of faith that 2020 was a uniquely terrible year. The COVID-19 pandemic killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide, an undeniable and at least partly…
The 10 best British TV shows of 2020
What would we have done without TV in 2020? In a year that saw countries across the world experiencing lockdowns and social distancing measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, television was…
10 of the best, most influential K-pop performances of 2020
This year saw a ton of amazing K-pop performances, from (G)I-dle’s staging of “Oh My God” at the KBS Song Festival, to Sunghoon’s figure skating during Enhypen’s MAMA appearance, to…
The 13 best British movies of 2020
To say that 2020 has been a strange year for movies would be a massive understatement. Like every facet of life this year, the coronavirus pandemic has worked itself into…
The deep sea discoveries of 2020 are stunning
This spring, in a canyon over 2,000 feet beneath the Indian Ocean surface, a robot happened upon a fantastical, coiled creature. This siphonophore, found laying like loosely piled rope on…
58 things you probably forgot happened in 2020
Congratulations! You’ve survived 2020! Does the idea of this godforsaken year’s end bring you little comfort because you know the horrors it wrought will outlast December? Yeah…us too. Emotionally speaking,…
2020 wasn’t all bad. Here are its EV winners (and losers).
Electric vehicles had quite the year. Tesla stock soared. Promises of new electric models came from a long list of legacy carmakers like GM, Toyota, BMW, Nissan, and even luxury…
Our year in grief
None of us were prepared for the loss of life as we knew it — practically overnight — back in March. But some of us who’d experienced it before knew…