Science Stories for 2021

Amazing / Strange Things Scientists Calculated in 2021 36
Building the World's Brightest X-Ray Laser 15
Sugar Additive Trehalose Could Have Helped Spread Dangerous Superbug Around the US 78
Using the Oceans To Store CO2 Could Help Avoid Climate Catastrophe 176
NASA-funded Program Recruited Religious Experts To Predict How Humans May React To Aliens 114
MIT Engineers Test an Idea For a New Hovering Rover 18
With Its Single 'Eye,' NASA's DART Returns First Images From Space 7
US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases 353
James Webb Space Telescope's Smooth Launch Extended Its Life Expectancy, NASA Says 45
Scientists Find Unexpected Trove of Life Forms Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf 13
SpaceX Will Take Humans To Mars Within 10 Years, Elon Musk Predicts 207
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 100
World's Oldest Family Tree Created Using DNA 49
Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning 45
South Africa Study Suggests Omicron Could Displace Delta 100
Scientists Build New Atlas of Ocean's Oxygen-starved Waters 10
China Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station 283
Scientists Draw Inspiration From Catchweed To Create Biodegradable Velcro 14
CDC Cuts Isolation Time For COVID-19 Infections From 10 Days To 5 110
What's Next After the International Space Station? 98
Radio Telescope Reveals How Lightning Begins 22
X-ray Analysis Confirms Forged Date On Lincoln Pardon of Civil War Soldier 46
'A Christmas Gift for Humanity' - Cheers Erupt After Webb Telescope Completes Flawless Launch 56
Denmark Sees Initial Signs That Dire Omicron Surge Can Be Avoided 149
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery of Why Comets Glow Green 13
Nasa's X-ray Boom Arm for Black Hole Studies Extends in Orbit 6
Large Ocean Fossil Discovered in Nevada Could Hold Key To Aquatic Evolution 31
The Universe is Expanding Faster Than it Should Be 157
New System Would Let Us Know If Aliens Are Using Lasers to Communicate 83
What Are FFP2 Masks, Mandatory in Some European Countries? 131
At Long Last, the World's Most Powerful Space Telescope is Ready To Launch 104
FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Antiviral Pill 64
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed 70
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
Intel Tells Unvaccinated Employees They Face Unpaid Leave 227
FDA Authorizes First Pill To Treat Covid-19 128
No Mountain High Enough: Study Finds Plastic in 'Clean' Air 53
Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg 16
MIT Engineers Produce the World's Longest Flexible Fiber Battery 35
A Bluetooth Bug In a Popular At-Home COVID-19 Test Could Falsify Results 39
Imaginary Numbers Could Be Needed To Describe Reality, New Studies Find 179
WHO Sounds Warning Over Fast-spreading Omicron 215
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines 49
Florida Manatees Facing Starvation to Be Fed in Trial Program 59
Asteroid Sample Could Reveal Our Solar System's Origin Story 11
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows 129
Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells In a Dish To Play 'Pong' 44
After 50 Years, Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened 51
NASA Releases New Photos of Jupiter - and a Recording of Its Moon that Sounds Like R2-D2 23
Covid Vaccines Fight Serious Illness, But Only Pfizer and Moderna With a Booster Stop Omicron Infections 328
And the Biggest Scientific Breakthrough of 2021 Is... 29
Can Invasive Fish Be Scared Off With a Menacing Robot Predator? 37
Forget Dogs: These Rats Could Be the Future of Search and Rescue 30
Astronomers Nervously Counting Down to Christmas Eve Launch of $10B Webb Telescope 63
Hospital's Computer System Always Marks Up Costs Automatically, Leaked Records Show 224
A Domestic Newspaper Warns of the Russian Space Program's 'Rapid Collapse' 76
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
European Soccer Matches Have Become Predictable, Study Finds 60
'No Evidence' That Omicron is Less Severe Than Delta, Say Imperial Researchers 348
The First True Millipede: New Species With More Than 1,000 Legs Discovered in Western Australia 34
CDC Panel Recommends Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines Over J&J's 139
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem 15
Scientists Just Found a 'Significant' Volume of Water Inside Mars' Grand Canyon 37
UK Reports Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases Since the Pandemic Began 180
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Becomes First Spacecraft To 'Touch' the Sun 63
Scientists Urge Creating Strategic Forest Reserves To Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity 118
Bugs Across Globe Are Evolving To Eat Plastic, Study Finds 88
New NASA Tool Helps Visualize Asteroids' Paths Through Solar System 4
NASA's New Sleeping Bags Could Prevent Eyeball 'Squashing' On the ISS 41
First UK Death Recorded With Omicron Variant 179
Researchers Are Hoping To 'Hear' Dark Matter Using a Super-Cooled Experiment 16
South Korea To Test AI-Powered Facial Recognition To Track COVID-19 Cases 12
One Space Trip Emits a Lifetime's Worth of Carbon Footprint 201
FAA: No More Astronaut Wings For Future Commercial Space Tourists 44
Scientists Discover How the SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evades Our Immune System 146
NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online 11
'When a Newspaper Publishes an Unsolvable Puzzle' 23
Is the Internet Changing the Way We Remember? 54
New Medicine Could Replace Reading Glasses with Eye Drops 87
COVID Booster Cuts Death Rate by 90%, Israeli Study Finds 154
Blue Origin Helps Humanity Set a New Record for Spaceflight 53
FAA Says Lack of Federal Whistleblower Protections Is 'Enormous Factor' Hindering Blue Origin Safety Review 24
Japanese Scientists Develop Glowing Masks To Detect Coronavirus 89
New NASA Telescope Will Provide X-Ray Views of the Universe 15
FDA Clears AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Antibody Treatment For Immunocompromised 13
Microplastics Cause Damage To Human Cells, Study Shows 39
Over 40 Million People Had Health Information Leaked This Year 25
This Massive Planet Shouldn't Exist 66
Can an Athlete's Blood Enhance Brainpower? 56
Suicide Pods Now Legal In Switzerland, Providing Users With a Painless Death 363
Waking Up Right After Drifting Off To Sleep Can Boost Creativity 28
Older People Who Get Cataracts Removed Have Lower Dementia Risk 70
Pfizer, BioNTech Say Third Dose Neutralizes Omicron Variant 292
Study Can't Confirm Lab Results For Many Cancer Experiments 126
The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances 208
Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked To Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's 115
Darpa Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World's First Warp Bubble 189
France To Mimic Musk With Own SpaceX-Style Launcher, Minister Says 184
Mysterious Galaxy Without Dark Matter Puzzles Astronomers 106
China 'Modified' the Weather To Create Clear Skies For Political Celebration, Study Finds 32
DeepMind Cracks 'Knot' Conjecture That Bedeviled Mathematicians For Decades 21
Meta Has a 'Moral Obligation' To Make Its Mental Health Research Transparent, Scientists Say 46
China Moon Rover Will Investigate Cube-shaped 'Mystery' Object on Lunar Far Side 65
Earth is Getting a Black Box To Record Events that Lead To the Downfall of Civilization 120
Meet the People Living in Simulations of Life on Mars 43
Booster Doses are Powerful, May Fight Omicron, Researchers Find 399
International Space Station Fired Its Thrusters Friday To Dodge More Space Debris 13
Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance 9
Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Are Being Advertised On the Dark Web 207
Australia Is the Drunkest Country In the World, Survey Finds 108
The Coronavirus in a Tiny Drop 63
Scientists Raise Concerns Over Baby Genome Sequencing Plan 66
The Largest Comet We've Ever Seen Just Delivered a Curious Surprise 18
NASA Awards Blue Origin, Nanoracks, Northrop Grumman Over $400M In Contracts To Avoid Space Station Gap 39
US Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General 171
New York Anime Convention Possibly Infected With Omicron 170
Californian Firm Touts 'Mushroom Leather' as Sustainability Gamechanger 128
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Die Within a Year, Study Finds 338
Trigger of Rare Blood Clots In AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Found 191
US Confirms Nation's First Case of Omicron Covid Variant In California 116
British Man Given 3D Printed Eye in World First, Hospital Says 26
WHO Says Omicron Has Been Found in 23 Countries Across the World 259
Biden Administration Issues New Framework for Space Policy, With a Focus on Climate Change 31
Wanted: A Town Willing to Host a Dump for U.S. Nuclear Waste 335
Princeton Team Disables Long-Targeted Gene Behind Spread of Major Cancers 55
NASA Postpones Spacewalk Citing 'Debris Notification' for ISS 13
Moderna CEO Says Vaccines Likely Less Effective Against Omicron 311
Israel Authorizes Use of Phone Tracking Tech To Contain Spread of Omicron Covid Variant 70
World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, Scientists Say 77
Stamping Bar Codes on Cells To Solve Medical Mysteries 14
How to Read a Jellyfish's Mind 24
Researchers Claim Locally-Testable-Code Breakthrough With Exotic Multi-Dimensional Graph 62
A Stem-Cell Cure For Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems To Have Worked 48
'Squeezed' Light Might Produce Breakthroughs in Nano-Sized Electronics 15
Breakthrough By McMaster PhD Student Creates Laser In Silicon 60
Booster Shots Create a 23X Increase in Protective Antibody Levels, Study Suggests 375
Physicists Start Detecting Signs of Neutrinos At Large Hadron Collider 34
Top Vaccine Makers Already Preparing to Fight Omicron Coronavirus Variant 165
3D Printer Using Living Ink Made of Microbes Could Print Healing Structures in Space 13
Biden Admin Announces Travel Ban for South Africa and 7 Other Countries, Citing New Variant 258
Einstein Foundation To Present the Inaugural Award for Promoting Quality in Research 11
South Africa Raises Alarm Over New Coronavirus Variant 244
China's New Space Reactor 'Will Be 100 Times More Powerful Than a Similar Device NASA Plans To Put on the Surface of the Moon by 2030' 134
Germany Considers a Full Covid Lockdown and Mandatory Vaccines 388
US To Require Vaccines For All Border Crossers In January 241
Watch NASA Crash a Spacecraft Into An Asteroid 38
California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide 639
UK Visa Scheme for Prize-winning Scientists Receives No Applications 171
An 'Incident' With the James Webb Space Telescope Has Occurred 149
Cancer Cells Use 'Tiny Tentacles' To Suck Mitochondria Out of Immune Cells 63
A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes 58
Rare Einstein Manuscript Set To Fetch Millions 23
Are Zebras White With Black Stripes Or Black With White Stripes? 67
Scientists May Have Identified the Crater on Mars that Launched a Rock to Earth 9
Researcher Argues Data Paints 'Big Red Flashing Arrow' Toward Wuhan Market as Covid-19 Origin 371
'Gas Station in Space' - A New Proposal to Convert Space Junk Into Rocket Fuel 27
Harvard Astronomers Challenge Theory That 'Oumuamua Was a Nitrogen Iceberg 50
NASA Seeks Ideas For a Nuclear Reactor On the Moon 94
Visualizations Show the Extensive Cloud of Debris Russia's Anti-Satellite Test Created 77
Perseverance Rover Captures Awesome Video of Helicopter Flying on Mars 65
DogPhone Lets Pets Ring Their Owners 53
UPDATE: Broad 329,000-Page Document Request Led to FDA's 2076 'Scheduling Dispute' 443
CDC Panel Unanimously Endorses Pfizer and Moderna Covid Boosters For All US Adults 168
Adults Who Microdose Psychedelics Report Health-related Motivations and Lower Levels of Anxiety and Depression, Paper Finds 108
Steve Wozniak's Startup Privateer Plans To Launch Hundreds of Satellites To Study Space Debris 42
Iodine-Powered Satellite Successfully Tested In Space For First Time 51
SpaceX Will 'Hopefully' Launch First Orbital Starship Flight In January 50
Jeff Bezos: Future Humans 'Will Visit the Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone' 191
NASA's Moon Landing Will Likely Be Delayed 'Several Years' Beyond 2024, Auditors Say 94
VR Treatment For Chronic Pain Gets FDA Authorization 20
New Mission To Scour Our Interstellar Neighbourhood for Planets that Could Sustain Life 21
Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine 101
Russia May Have Just Shot Down Its Own Satellite, Creating a Huge Debris Cloud 176
Heavy Rains and Storms in Egypt's Aswan Unleash Scorpions in People's Homes 71
Chemists Discover New Way To Harness Energy From Ammonia 119
The Man Behind the 'Tic-Tac' UFO Videos Claim They've Been Here Since the 1950s 139
William Shatner's Crewmate on Blue Origin Spaceflight Died Thursday in a Plane Crash 43
Near-Earth Asteroid is a Fragment From the Moon, Say Scientists 15
New Mineral Discovered In Deep-Earth Diamond 19
New Class of Drug Reverses Paralysis In Mice 66
SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft Successfully Docks At ISS With Four Astronauts Onboard 39
AI Skin Cancer Diagnoses Risk Being Less Accurate For Dark Skin 56
Whole Genome Sequencing Could Save NHS Millions of Pounds, Study Suggests 26
Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' 155
Black Holes May Gain Mass From the Expansion of the Universe Itself 38
Fatty Acid Found In Palm Oil Linked To Spread of Cancer 93
New Company Develops Vacuum-Sealed Centrifuge To Launch Satellites Into Orbit 200
Unsealed Emails Show How J&J Shaped Report On Talc's Links To Cancer 88
Record Number of New Gravitational Waves Offers Game-changing Window Into Universe 44
Japan's Space Agency May Retrieve the First Samples From Mars - Sort of 19
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers 39
'The Problem with the Big Bang Theory' 141
FDA Approves First Psilocin Clinical Trial 36
Amazon Seeks US Regulators' Permission To Launch Another 4,538 Satellites 27
Europe Once Again at Centre of Covid Pandemic, Says WHO 114
Half World's Fossil Fuel Assets Could Become Worthless by 2036 in Net Zero Transition 65
Pfizer Says COVID Pill Cuts Risk of Death or Hospitalization by 89%, Citing Interim Results 112
COVID-19 Virus Does Not Infect Human Brain Cells, Study Suggests 65
Oxford Scientists Find Gene That Doubles Risk of Dying From Covid-19 100
Alphabet Launches AI Company To Discover New Drugs 17
Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard To Find 75
First Pill To Treat Covid Gets Approval in UK 92
The United Nations Could Finally Create New Rules For Space 46
Australia Is Putting a Rover On the Moon In 2024 To Search For Water 30
'Useless Specks of Dust' Turn Out To Be Building Blocks of All Vertebrate Genomes 30
C.D.C. Recommends Covid Vaccine for Younger Children 215
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution In the US 41
As Earth Warms, Human History Is Melting Away 37
SpaceX's Starlink Registers in India, Aims To Deploy 200,000 Active Terminals by 2022 25
NASA Proposes New Methodology for Communicating the Discovery of Alien Life 85
Vaccination Offers Better Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection 368
NASA Wants Your Help Improving Perseverance Rover's AI 15
Juno Reveals Deep 3D Structure of Jupiter's Massive Storms 17
Pacific Lingcod, an Omnivorous Fish, Gains and Loses 20 Teeth Each Day 16
Scientists Discover New Phase of Water, Known as 'Superionic Ice,' Inside Planets 18
AI Hints at How the Brain Processes Language 11
Endangered Birds Experience 'Virgin Birth,' a First for the Species 60
Sun Fires Off Major Solar Flare From Earth-Facing Sunspot 53
MRI and Ultrasound Can Sneak Cancer Drugs Into the Brain 16
Global Covid Cases and Deaths Rise for the First Time in Two Months, WHO Says 184
Cheap Antidepressant Shows Promise Treating Early COVID-19 218
Giant, Free Index To World's Research Papers Released Online 10
Neutrino Result Heralds New Chapter In Physics 58
Immunocompromised May Need a Fourth COVID-19 Shot, CDC Says 207
The 50-year-old Problem That Eludes Theoretical Computer Science 113
UK Reaches Highest COVID-19 Deaths Since March As New AY.4.2 Delta Sub-Variant Spreads 403
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Wants To Build a Tourism Space Station Nearly As Big As the ISS 88
Astronomers Spot First Possible Exoplanet Outside Our Galaxy 28
Amazon Brings Alexa To Hospitals and Senior Living Centers 51
Your Brain Uses 'Autocorrect' To Decipher Language and AI Just Helped Us Prove It, New Study Says 52
An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How To Link the Quantum World With Gravity 73
Astronomers Find Nascent Exploding Star, 'Rosetta Stone' of All Supernovas 27
Hear Sounds From Mars Captured By NASA's Perseverance Rover 21
A Math Teacher is Putting Calculus Lessons on Pornhub 57
Memes About COVID-19 Helped Us Cope With Life in a Pandemic, a New Study Finds 18
India Crosses the Milestone of 1 Billion COVID-19 Vaccinations 41
Meet Starlab: Private Space Station Planned To Fly In 2027 38
Steak Knife Made From Hardened Wood Is Three Times Sharper Than Steel 91
VR Treatment For Lazy Eye In Children Gets FDA Approval 11
Fossil Fuel Drilling Plans Undermine Climate Pledges, UN Report Warns 97
WHO Asks South African Startup To Replicate Moderna's mRNA Vaccine 63
FDA Approves Mixing COVID Vaccines 303
US Surgeons Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant In Human Patient 66
Doctors Blame TikTok For Surge In Teen Girls Experiencing Tics 60
Homeopathy Doesn't Work. So Why Do So Many Germans Believe in It? 221
The FDA Wants You To Be Able To Buy a Hearing Aid Without a Prescription 76
99.9% of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused by Humans 281
Star's Strange Path Around Black Hole Proves Einstein Right -- Again 61
Radiant Aims To Replace Diesel Generators With Small Nuclear Reactors 266

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