If your resolution for the coming year is to spend less time on your commute scrolling through Twitter or playing “Puzzler on the Roof,” there’s no shortage of fantastic and fantastical new books you can use to take a break from mindless screen time. Curating this year’s new arrivals was tough, but we managed to narrow the list down to our top-ten favorites.

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WIRED’s Required Science Reading From 2016

An unprecedented look at dopamine in the brain reveals that psychosis drugs get developed with the wrong neurons in mind.

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An unprecedented look at dopamine in the brain reveals that psychosis drugs get developed with the wrong neurons in mind.
Read this story <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-was-wrong-about-antipsychotics/">here</a>.

Everyone Was Wrong About Antipsychotics

Covid-19 cases are slowly increasing across the US for the fourth summer in a row.

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Covid-19 cases are slowly increasing across the US for the fourth summer in a row.
Read this story <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/covids-summer-wave-is-rising-again/">here</a>.

Covid’s Summer Wave Is Rising—Again

A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.

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A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.
Read this story <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/this-prosthetic-limb-actually-attaches-to-the-wearers-nerves/">here</a>.

WIRED’s Required Science Reading From 2016

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