To support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press

To support research for and writing of Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco Press 2018), a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to capture the first direct image of a black hole

To support the research and writing of a book, The Ice at the End of the World, on the scientific and technological history of Greenland with a special focus on climate change

To support the research and writing of a general-interest nonfiction book about a small company’s efforts to build the world’s first commercially-viable bricklaying robot, called SAM

To support the research and writing of a popular book on the nature of heredity, from its early history to the latest scientific findings and their implications for society

To support the research and writing of a book on the human relationship with trees and what it says about our larger relationship with nature, Ancient Trees in Modern Times: A Natural History of Long?term Relationships

To support research and writing of a book, "Never Home Alone," that engages the general public in the history and science of the microbiology of the built environment

To support the writing of a book, Evolutions, that juxtaposes the most current scientific understanding of cosmology and the evolution with myths

To research and write a book on the history of the foundations of quantum physics, with a particular emphasis on the continued dominance of the troubled "Copenhagen interpretation"

To support the writing of a book, The Breakthrough, to enhance public understanding of the science behind recent advances in cancer immunotherapy