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  6. -------------------------------------- October 2020 --------------------------------------
  7.  
  8. https://i.imgur.com/4o5ajYu.jpeg
  9.  
  10. Monthly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/359cae84aa22/science_summary
  11.  
  12. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4r4_DT1r4
  13.  
  14. ----------------- Selection -----------------
  15.  
  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_science
  17.  
  18. Items which I added to the Wikipedia list are marked with a star.
  19. In many cases items added to the list were not integrated into Wikipedia elsewhere.
  20. Relevant Wikipedia articles are linked from the list.
  21. Some more relevant information on criteria can be found on the list's talk page.
  22.  
  23. If you can't access a paper you could use Sci-Hub.
  24.  
  25. ------------------ Sources ------------------
  26.  
  27. *Nuclear power
  28. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-crowd-nuclear-renewables-dont.html
  29. https://rdcu.be/b76hW
  30.  
  31. *Microplastics
  32. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/australia/microplastics-ocean-floor.html
  33. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.576170/full
  34.  
  35. Superconductor
  36. https://physicsworld.com/a/superconductivity-endures-to-15-c-in-high-pressure-material/
  37. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2801-z
  38.  
  39. Ecological restoration
  40. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257191-rewilding-farmland-in-tropical-regions-would-store-vast-amounts-of-co2/
  41. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2784-9
  42.  
  43. Asteroid sampling
  44. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/science/osiris-rex-mission.html
  45. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-successfully-touches-asteroid
  46.  
  47. Water on the Moon
  48. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/26/water-on-the-moon/
  49. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01222-x
  50. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1198-9
  51.  
  52. Venus
  53. *Data analysis 1 (preprint)
  54. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/venus-phosphine-possible-sign-life-doubts-how-science-works
  55. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09761
  56. *Data analysis 2 (preprint)
  57. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/venus-might-not-have-much-phosphine-dampening-hopes-for-life/
  58. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14305
  59. *Ca. 1980 data analysis (preprint)
  60. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nasa-probe-may-have-found-signs-of-life-on-venus-40-years-ago/
  61. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12758
  62. *Cloud tops data
  63. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/31/1011487/not-finding-life-on-venus-disappointing-good-science-phosphine-biosignature/
  64. https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202039559
  65. *Glycine (preprint)
  66. https://www.universetoday.com/148345/astronomers-report-theyve-detected-the-amino-acid-glycine-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus/
  67. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06211
  68.  
  69. COVID-19
  70. *CO2-emissions
  71. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-pandemic-unprecedented-emissions.html
  72. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18922-7
  73. *First wave
  74. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/covid-19-england-and-wales-among-highest-per-capita-death-tolls
  75. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1112-0
  76. *Solidarity trial (preprint)
  77. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/remdesivir-and-interferon-fall-flat-who-s-megastudy-covid-19-treatments
  78. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20209817v1
  79. *Vitamin D
  80. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54526652
  81. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04579640
  82. *SARS-CoV-2 variants (preprint)
  83. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/coronavirus-variant-seen-spreading-across-europe-research-says.html
  84. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.25.20219063v1
  85. *Slovakia
  86. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/30/slovakia-to-test-all-citizens-over-age-of-10-for-coronavirus
  87.  
  88. _________
  89.  
  90. Nobel Prizes
  91. https://www.nobelprize.org/
  92.  
  93. *Early quasar
  94. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-large-telescope-galaxies-web-supermassive.html
  95. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa39045-20/aa39045-20.html
  96.  
  97. *Nitrous oxide
  98. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nitrous-oxide-emissions-pose-climate.html
  99. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2780-0
  100.  
  101. *3D map
  102. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-astronomers-largest-d-galaxies.html
  103. https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/ps1-strm
  104.  
  105. *Great Barrier Reef
  106. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-great-barrier-reef-lost-corals.html
  107. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1432
  108.  
  109. *Titan
  110. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258658-weird-ring-shaped-molecule-on-titan-could-be-a-building-block-to-life/
  111. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb679
  112.  
  113. *Extinctions
  114. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/hominin-extinctions/
  115. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30476-0
  116.  
  117. *Duration
  118. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/photon-journey-molecule-shortest-event-zeptosecond-physics
  119. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/339
  120.  
  121. *Permian–Triassic extinction event
  122. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-driver-largest-mass-extinction-history.html
  123. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00646-4
  124.  
  125. *Microplastics exposure
  126. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-high-microplastics-infant-bottles-formula.html
  127. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y
  128.  
  129. *Quantum time dilation
  130. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks.html
  131. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18264-4
  132.  
  133. *Yarkovsky acceleration
  134. https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-99942-apophis-encounters-2029-2036-2068
  135. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020DPS....5221406T/abstract
  136.  
  137. Great Barrier Reef
  138. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-54716546
  139. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-scientists-meter-tall-coral-reef-great.html
  140.  
  141. *Habitable zones (accepted preprint)
  142. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-habitable-planets.html
  143. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812
  144.  
  145. *Rice
  146. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-cooking-rice-arsenic-retains-mineral.html
  147. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720368728
  148.  
  149. ------------------ Not included ------------------
  150.  
  151. - Researchers discover a novel overlapping gene (OLG), named ORF3d, in the Covid-19 virus genome that may factor in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. They found the gene has been identified before, but only in a variant of coronavirus that infects pangolins.
  152.  
  153. * A rippling graphene-based energy-harvesting circuit with the potential to deliver "clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices" if adequately incorporated into a chip is demonstrated.
  154.  
  155. * Scientists report the direct visualization of neuronal tissue of extraordinarily well-preserved ~2,000 years-old human neuronal tissue – whose discovery was reported in January – of a victim of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, vitrified by hot ash.
  156.  
  157. - Researchers reveal a new high-temperature superconducting cable, named VIPER, capable of sustaining higher levels of electric current and magnetic fields than previously possible.
  158.  
  159. - Researchers demonstrate the first passive radiative device that absorbs heat from the hotter inside of an enclosure and emits it on the outside. The system has potential to cool vehicle and building interiors, and solar cells, without using electricity.
  160.  
  161. - Medical researchers conclude the COVID-19 virus can remain on common surfaces for up to 28 days in laboratory settings that include darkness.
  162.  
  163. - In an unprecedented move, all 34 editors of top medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, condemn President Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
  164.  
  165. - Medical scientists report, for the first time in the U.S. and fifth worldwide, confirming evidence of reinfection with the COVID-19 virus.
  166.  
  167. - The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is shown to be 530 light years away, about 25% closer than previously thought. Additionally, its estimated size is revised downwards, from the semi-major axis of Jupiter to around two-thirds of this diameter.
  168.  
  169. * Researchers report that antibiotic resistance genes can spread into bacterial populations without the respective selection pressure via horizontal gene transfer.
  170.  
  171. * On 15 October BepiColombo conducts a fly-by of Venus, possibly having instruments sensitive enough to detect the gas, without a detection or non-detection being declared by 10 November.
  172.  
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