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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_science
 
Items which I added to the Wikipedia list are marked with a star.
Some more relevant information can be found on the list's talk page.
 
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Extended childhood*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-childhoods-parenting-young-crows-smarter.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0495

Mass extinctions*
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/science/mass-extinctions-are-accelerating-scientists-report.html
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/24/13596

Reaction network*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-reveals-pathway-blocks-life.html
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.pnas.org/content/117/24/13267

Foxes*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-city-foxes-similar-domesticated-dogs.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0763

COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine*
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/hydroxychloroquine-no-better-than-placebo-study-finds
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638
NRP1*
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-science-graphic-idUSKBN23J2YH
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/06/10/2020.06.07.137802.full.pdf
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/06/05/2020.06.05.134114.full.pdf
Dexamethasone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/steroid-found-to-help-prevent-deaths-of-sickest-coronavirus-patients
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-06-16-dexamethasone-reduces-death-hospitalised-patients-severe-respiratory-complications
Toilet flushing*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-flushing-toilets-clouds-virus-containing-particles.html
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0013318
Genes*
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200618/First-genome-wide-CRISPR-screen-reveals-genes-that-control-SARS-CoV-2-infection.aspx
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.16.155101v1
Asymptomatic cases*
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-vo-idUSKBN241228
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2488-1

Torpor*
https://newatlas.com/medical/suspended-animation-torpor-induced-hibernation/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2387-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2163-6

Technosignatures*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-intelligent-life-planets-technosignatures-clues.html

Black holes*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-year-old-theory-alien-civilization-exploit.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0944-3

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Yellowstone
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-discovery-ancient-super-eruptions-yellowstone-hotspot.html
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G47384.1/586793/Discovery-of-two-new-super-eruptions-from-the

Maya pyramid platform
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/06/massive-ancient-maya-ceremonial-complex-discovered-hiding-plain-sight/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2343-4

Epigenetics*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-mothers-offspring-success-epigenetics.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867420306218

Radioactivity*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-radioactive-cloud-europe-civilian-background.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16316-3

Egg cells*
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245679-human-eggs-release-chemicals-that-attract-some-sperm-more-than-others/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0805

Mentors*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-tacit-knowledge-important-aspect-mentorship.html
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/25/14077

Bose-Einstein condensates*+
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-quantum-state-space.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2346-1

Crocodile ancestors*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-ancient-crocodiles-legs-dinosaurs.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66008-7

CRISPR gene editing*
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246020-three-people-with-inherited-diseases-successfully-treated-with-crispr/
https://crisprtx.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/crispr-therapeutics-and-vertex-announce-new-clinical-data

Bow & arrow*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-discovery-oldest-arrow-technology-eurasia.html
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/24/eaba3831

Coal combustion*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-coal-burning-siberia-climate-million-years.html
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G47365.1/587319/Field-evidence-for-coal-combustion-links-the-252

Core-mantle boundary*+
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-unexpected-widespread-earth-core.html
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1223

Clouds*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-latest-climate-clouds.html
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaba1981

Civilizations
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uon-rsn061220.php
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8225

Color vision*
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/science/hummingbirds-color-vision.html
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/09/1919377117

Synthetic molecular motor*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-smallest-motor-world.html
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/12/1918654117

Ocean acidification*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-arctic-ocean-acidification-worse.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2360-3

Quantum communication*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-techniques-quantum-entangle-phonons.html
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.240502
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.021055

Warning on GDP-affluence*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-affluence-planet-scientists.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y

Quasar*
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-astronomers-monster-quasar-early-universe.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13452

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- Astronomers report narrowing down the source of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which may now plausibly include "compact-object mergers and magnetars arising from normal core collapse supernovae"
- The existence of quark cores in neutron stars is confirmed by Finnish researchers
- *Mitochondrial genetic divergence could be used to predict the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrid offspring and ancient anatomically modern humans (AMH), Neanderthals and Denisovans were genetically closer than polar bears and brown bears (1.6% divergence for Neanderthals and AMH and 2.4% for the bears)
- Kepler-160, a Sun-like star, likely has a rocky planet with orbit and light levels very similar to Earth
- *Astronomers report that results from research of Hubble Space Telescope data and other supporting data, to be published in an upcoming paper, show that galaxies must have formed much earlier than previously thought – earlier than can be probed with the Hubble Space Telescope.
- *Bacterial mass lysis for colony-defense occurs when the bacteria will die anyway from toxin exposure from competing bacteria
-  NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space in 1984, is the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean
- Computer experts warn Windows 10 users to update their computers with the latest security patches from Microsoft in order to avoid being infected with the wormlike SMBGhost security vulnerability, for which a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit had been released on 2 June
- *Pesticides contribute to monarch butterfly declines in the western United States
- *A scientific analysis estimates that as of 2020 about 1.7 bn people (UI 1·0–2·4) people, or 22% (UI 15–28%) of the world population, belong to a vulnerable group which has at least one underlying condition that raises the risk of severe disease when contracting COVID-19 and that 4% would require hospital admission if infected
- Astronomers map the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares for the most detailed such map yet of a star other than the Sun
- An excess of 53 events is reported at the XENON dark matter research facility, which may hint at the existence of hypothetical solar axions
- NASA scientists report that exoplanets with oceans may be common in the Milky Way galaxy, based on mathematical modeling studies
- *First open-source all-atom model and simulation of a full-length spike protein of SARS-CoV-2
- *Researchers report to have calculated a possibly testable upper limit for a fundamental period of a possibly quantized time based on a physical model of time as an oscillating variable
- *A novel cancer immunotherapy that included a personalized vaccine was shown to be successful in dogs
- Dwarf planet Pluto may have had a subsurface ocean
- *Scientists demonstrate that it is possible for fish to migrate via ingestion of fish eggs by birds
- Astronomers report details of the merging, in the "mass gap" of cosmic collisions, of a first-ever "mystery object": either a possibly too-heavy neutron star or a too-light black hole
- *World Meteorological Organization announces a possible new temperature-record of 38 °C north of the Arctic Circle, which it seeks to verify and assess
- Largest ever tanzanite gemstones discovered
- *World Meteorological Organization announces new records for the longest lightning bolt (700 km) and the "megaflash" with the longest duration (16.73 s)
- Astronomers report detecting a gravitational wave, named GW190521g, that is associated with, for the first time ever, a flash of light from the merger, within the vicinity of a third very large black hole, of two smaller black holes
- *Scientists report, with a genetic study, the identification of the origin of domesticated chicken
- *In two papers scientists report the development of the possibly most lightweight biopolymer aerogel that is flexible and durable and has a relatively high electromagnetic shielding-performance
- *Scientists report a possible explanation for the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, suggesting that emissions of coronae of supermassive black holes, such as possibly the active galactic nucleus of Messier 77, may be their source