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Science Summary - 2020, October

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  6. -------------------------------------- October 2020 --------------------------------------
  7.  
  8. https://i.imgur.com/4o5ajYu.jpeg
  9.  
  10. Monthly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/4345cd0237c2/orapfn1bn4
  11. reddit: https://mailchi.mp/359cae84aa22/science_summary
  12.  
  13. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4r4_DT1r4
  14.  
  15. ----------------- Selection -----------------
  16.  
  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_science
  18.  
  19. Items which I added to the Wikipedia list are marked with a star.
  20. In many cases items added to the list were not integrated into Wikipedia elsewhere.
  21. Relevant Wikipedia articles are linked from the list.
  22. Some more relevant information on criteria can be found on the list's talk page.
  23.  
  24. If you can't access a paper you could use Sci-Hub.
  25.  
  26. ------------------ Sources ------------------
  27.  
  28. *Nuclear power
  29. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-crowd-nuclear-renewables-dont.html
  30. https://rdcu.be/b76hW
  31.  
  32. *Microplastics
  33. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/australia/microplastics-ocean-floor.html
  34. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.576170/full
  35.  
  36. Superconductor
  37. https://physicsworld.com/a/superconductivity-endures-to-15-c-in-high-pressure-material/
  38. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2801-z
  39.  
  40. Ecological restoration
  41. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257191-rewilding-farmland-in-tropical-regions-would-store-vast-amounts-of-co2/
  42. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2784-9
  43.  
  44. Asteroid sampling
  45. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/science/osiris-rex-mission.html
  46. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-successfully-touches-asteroid
  47.  
  48. Water on the Moon
  49. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/26/water-on-the-moon/
  50. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01222-x
  51. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1198-9
  52.  
  53. Venus
  54. *Data analysis 1 (preprint)
  55. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/venus-phosphine-possible-sign-life-doubts-how-science-works
  56. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09761
  57. *Data analysis 2 (preprint)
  58. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/venus-might-not-have-much-phosphine-dampening-hopes-for-life/
  59. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14305
  60. *Ca. 1980 data analysis (preprint)
  61. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nasa-probe-may-have-found-signs-of-life-on-venus-40-years-ago/
  62. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12758
  63. *Cloud tops data
  64. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/31/1011487/not-finding-life-on-venus-disappointing-good-science-phosphine-biosignature/
  65. https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202039559
  66. *Glycine (preprint)
  67. https://www.universetoday.com/148345/astronomers-report-theyve-detected-the-amino-acid-glycine-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus/
  68. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06211
  69.  
  70. COVID-19
  71. *CO2-emissions
  72. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-pandemic-unprecedented-emissions.html
  73. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18922-7
  74. *First wave
  75. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/covid-19-england-and-wales-among-highest-per-capita-death-tolls
  76. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1112-0
  77. *Solidarity trial (preprint)
  78. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/remdesivir-and-interferon-fall-flat-who-s-megastudy-covid-19-treatments
  79. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20209817v1
  80. *Vitamin D
  81. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54526652
  82. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04579640
  83. *SARS-CoV-2 variants (preprint)
  84. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/coronavirus-variant-seen-spreading-across-europe-research-says.html
  85. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.25.20219063v1
  86. *Slovakia
  87. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/30/slovakia-to-test-all-citizens-over-age-of-10-for-coronavirus
  88.  
  89. _________
  90.  
  91. Nobel Prizes
  92. https://www.nobelprize.org/
  93.  
  94. *Early quasar
  95. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-large-telescope-galaxies-web-supermassive.html
  96. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa39045-20/aa39045-20.html
  97.  
  98. *Nitrous oxide
  99. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nitrous-oxide-emissions-pose-climate.html
  100. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2780-0
  101.  
  102. *3D map
  103. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-astronomers-largest-d-galaxies.html
  104. https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/ps1-strm
  105.  
  106. *Great Barrier Reef
  107. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-great-barrier-reef-lost-corals.html
  108. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1432
  109.  
  110. *Titan
  111. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258658-weird-ring-shaped-molecule-on-titan-could-be-a-building-block-to-life/
  112. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb679
  113.  
  114. *Extinctions
  115. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/hominin-extinctions/
  116. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30476-0
  117.  
  118. *Duration
  119. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/photon-journey-molecule-shortest-event-zeptosecond-physics
  120. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/339
  121.  
  122. *Permian–Triassic extinction event
  123. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-driver-largest-mass-extinction-history.html
  124. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00646-4
  125.  
  126. *Microplastics exposure
  127. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-high-microplastics-infant-bottles-formula.html
  128. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y
  129.  
  130. *Quantum time dilation
  131. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks.html
  132. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18264-4
  133.  
  134. *Yarkovsky acceleration
  135. https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-99942-apophis-encounters-2029-2036-2068
  136. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020DPS....5221406T/abstract
  137.  
  138. Great Barrier Reef
  139. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-54716546
  140. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-scientists-meter-tall-coral-reef-great.html
  141.  
  142. *Habitable zones (accepted preprint)
  143. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-habitable-planets.html
  144. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812
  145.  
  146. *Rice
  147. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-cooking-rice-arsenic-retains-mineral.html
  148. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720368728
  149.  
  150. ------------------ Not included ------------------
  151.  
  152. - 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.
  153.  
  154. * 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.
  155.  
  156. * 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.
  157.  
  158. - Researchers reveal a new high-temperature superconducting cable, named VIPER, capable of sustaining higher levels of electric current and magnetic fields than previously possible.
  159.  
  160. - 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.
  161.  
  162. - Medical researchers conclude the COVID-19 virus can remain on common surfaces for up to 28 days in laboratory settings that include darkness.
  163.  
  164. - 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.
  165.  
  166. - Medical scientists report, for the first time in the U.S. and fifth worldwide, confirming evidence of reinfection with the COVID-19 virus.
  167.  
  168. - 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.
  169.  
  170. * Researchers report that antibiotic resistance genes can spread into bacterial populations without the respective selection pressure via horizontal gene transfer.
  171.  
  172. * 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.
  173.  
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