World events left many marks and losses in 2014, but Scientific American readers kept calm and carried on for the most part, as your top picks among the stories we published this year reveal. We added in behind-the-scenes information for some of your favorites, listed below:
1. Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”—Our online managing editor Philip Yam developed the idea for this story and assigned it to Lee Billings, who threw himself at it, thereby sealing the deal for hiring him as our newest space and physics editor. It’s a pleasure to have him on board.
Image: Entering a closed timelike curve tomorrow means you could end up at today. Credit: Dmitry Schidlovsky
