Science Stories for 2020

Ten-Year Long Study Confirms No Link Between Playing Violent Video Games as Early as Ten Years Old and Aggressive Behavior Later in Life 95
Mitsubishi Heavy To Build Biggest Zero-Carbon Steel Plant 135
SpaceX Will Attempt To Recover Super Heavy Rocket by Catching it With Launch Tower 130
Private Party App Pulled From App Store by Apple 193
Japan Developing Wooden Satellites To Cut Space Junk 165
Neptune's Weird Dark Spot Just Got Weirder 24
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life 84
Scientists Turn CO2 Into Jet Fuel 144
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Samples from Ryugu Asteroid Revealed After Delivery to Earth 3
An Asteroid the Size of a Dwarf Planet Is Lurking In Our Solar System 38
The Secret to Longevity? 4-Minute Bursts of Intense Exercise May Help 82
Many Formerly-Skeptical Americans are Now Eager to Get Covid-19 Vaccines 247
Can mRNA Biotechnology be Adapted to Improve Flu Vaccines and Fight Cancer? 75
A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean 45
The World's Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time 443
Discovery of 'Cryptic Species' Shows Earth is Even More Biologically Diverse 37
Korean Artificial Sun Sets the New World Record of 20-Sec-Long Operation At 100 Million Degrees 52
Atomic-Scale Nanowires Can Now Be Produced At Scale 13
Photographer Captures ISS Passing Between Jupiter and Saturn 46
Pfizer To Supply US With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses 57
Microplastics Revealed in the Placentas of Unborn Babies 138
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals 16
AI Solves Schrodinger's Equation 67
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals 42
What Scientists Know About the Coronavirus Variant Spreading In the UK 125
Evidence of 'Modified Gravity' In 150 Galaxies Strengthens Dark Matter Alternative 98
How To See Jupiter and Saturn Align On Monday Night 34
Fired COVID-19 Data Manager Rebekah Jones Sues FDLE Over Raid On Her Home 144
Stanford Algorithm Decided To Vaccinate Only Seven of Its Frontline COVID-19 Workers, Out of 5,000 Doses 126
Scientists Looking for Aliens Investigate Radio Beam 'From Nearby Star' 75
Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine Wins European Backing 50
How the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Fought the Pandemic 144
Should America's Next President Abolish the Space Force? 330
Amazon's Answer To SpaceX Starlink Delivers 400Mbps In Prototype Phase 77
Capella Space Defends High-Resolution Satellite Photos Described as 'Eerily Observant' 79
Physicists Made an Insanely Precise Clock That Keeps Time Using Entanglement 65
New UK Strain of Coronavirus More Infectious, Say Government Scientists 156
US Space Force Members Are Now Called 'Guardians' 132
After 44 Years, China Becomes the Third Country To Return Moon Samples To Earth 45
The 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 62
How Toxic Fumes Seep Into the Air You Breathe on Planes 75
OneWeb Launches 36 Satellites 30
Australian 'Super Seaweed' Supplement To Reduce Cattle Gas Emissions Wins $1 Million International Prize 72
A Successful Experiment Gets Us One Step Closer To a Quantum Internet 42
Biomarker of Alzheimer's Found To Be Regulated By Sleep Cycles 23
FDA Panel Endorses Moderna's Coronavirus Vaccine 73
Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous? 33
AI-Enabled Cheetos Offer Promise of the Perfect Puff 66
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death 79
China To Open Giant Telescope To International Scientists 32
Plastic Pipes Are Polluting Drinking Water Systems After Wildfires 72
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription 61
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Pigs 76
Germany Orders Electric Air Taxis To Carry Emergency Doctors 50
Poor Countries Face Long Wait for Vaccines Despite Promises 235
Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System 74
Scientists Just Set a New World Record In Solar Cell Efficiency 105
'New Variant' of Coronavirus Identified in UK, Health Secretary Says 74
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
AstraZeneca Tries Combining Its Covid-19 Vaccine With Russia's 'Sputnik V' Vaccine 80
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe? 99
America's Covid-19 Deaths Likely to Exceed 9/11's Death Toll Every Day, For Two Months 387
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days 98
Virgin Galactic Unexpectedly Aborted a Test Flight of Its Space Plane 34
Boston Biotech Conference Led To 245,000 COVID-19 Cases Across US 43
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Florida Governor Defends Police Raid On COVID Data Whistleblower 145
CERN is Making the Large Hadron Collider's Data More Accessible 6
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Salesforce Claims Its AI Can Spot Signs of Breast Cancer With 92% Accuracy 24
Hidden Symmetry Could Be Key To More Robust Quantum Systems, Researchers Find 14
MDMA-Assisted Couples Therapy Investigated In Landmark Pilot Trial 68
SpaceX's Successful Starship High-Altitude Flight Ends In a Fiery Explosion 285
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine 175
EU Agency in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Says it Was Hacked 40
Human 'Stuff' Now Outweighs All Life on Earth 98
Mount Everest, Earth's Tallest Mountain, Just Got Taller By About a Meter 44
Scientists Say They Have Come Up With a Potential Way To Make Oxygen On Mars 122
Pfizer's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose 190
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
Aliens In Hiding Until Mankind Is Ready, Says Ex-Israeli Space Head 332
The World's First DNA 'Tricorder' In Your Pocket 54
California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones 61
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding 55
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair 97
Missing Credit Card Payments May Be an Early Sign of Dementia, Study Says 114
Voyager Probes Detect New Kind of 'Electron Burst' in Interstellar Space 24
Celebrating the Path-Breaking Research That Lead to Coronavirus Vaccines 134
Component Failure Found in Crew Capsule NASA Hoped to Launch in 2021 146
New Research Shows What We Can Accomplish by Manipulating Biology 24
The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer 52
Jeff Bezos Shares Blue Origin Engine Test Footage 43
Dust From Japan's Asteroid-Blasting Probe Returns to Earth 29
'Mysterious Object Hurtling Towards Earth' is a 1966 Booster Rocket 31
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
Are America's Hospitals Becoming Overwhelmed? 312
China Expanding Weather-Control Program To Make Artificial Rain, Snow 62
'I Tried the World's First No-Kill, Lab-Grown Chicken Burger' 106
Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers 60
Reversal of Biological Clock Restores Vision In Old Mice 53
Pfizer Halves Covid-19 Vaccine Shipments For 2020 Due To Supply-Chain Problems 57
China's Chang'e 5 Probe Lifts Off From Moon Carrying Lunar Samples 32
Drone Footage Shows the Shocking Collapse of the Arecibo Observatory 112
AstraZeneca and Oxford's Stories Clash on COVID-19 Vaccine 56
NASA Video Captures Decades of the Sun's Spitting Fury 29
Facebook Will Take Down Misinformation About Covid Vaccines 147
Physicists Nail Down the 'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe 177
Singapore Becomes First Country To Approve Lab-Grown Meat 78
South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn 195
UK Becomes the First Country To Approve Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine, Roll Out To Start Next Week 109
Elon Musk is Highly Confident SpaceX Will Land Humans on Mars by 2026 229
Australian Telescope Maps New Atlas of the Universe In Record Speed 41
China's Chang'e 5 Mission Lands on the Moon 32
Chinese Submarine Reaches the Deepest Place On Earth 112
Engineers Are Building Huge Salt Caves To Store Huge Amounts of Hydrogen 76
No One Who Got Moderna's Vaccine In Trial Developed Severe COVID-19 177
In a Major Scientific Breakthrough, AI Predicts the Exact Shape of Proteins 62
For the First Time Scientists Detect Neutrinos Traced To CNO Cycle Inside the Sun 20
Duck! Meteor! Oh, Maybe Don't Bother - This Time... 49
Researchers Calculate Earth is 2,000 Light-years Closer to the Milky Way's Black Hole 27
The ESA Starts a New Commercial Sector in Space: Removing Space Debris 47
The Pope Praises Medical Workers, Criticizes 'Personal Freedom' Protests 196
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
WHO Says Would be 'Highly Speculative' To Say COVID Did Not Emerge in China 204
Huge Reservoir of Fresh Water Found Beneath the Sea Off Hawaii 83
Leaf-Cutter Ants Have Rocky Crystal Armor, Never Before Seen in Insects 17
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop 176
Astra Likely To Run Additional Global Vaccine Test, CEO Says 45
Culled Mink Rise From the Dead To Denmark's Horror 108
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen 52
Amateur Astronomer Alberto Caballero Finds Possible Source of Wow! Signal 67
1% of Farms Operate 70% of World's Farmland 115
Laser Fusion Reactor Approaches 'Burning Plasma' Milestone 132
Psilocybin and Migraine: First of Its Kind Trial Reports Promising Results 61
China Launches Ambitious Mission To Land On Moon and Return Samples To Earth 65
The Oxford Vaccine Is 70% Effective, Cheaper and Easier To Store and Distribute 129
These Algorithms Could Bring an End To the World's Deadliest Killer 21
The Audacious Plan to Launch a Solar-Powered Rocket Into Interstellar Space 41
To Explain Away Dark Matter, Gravity Would Have To Be Really Weird 198
Experimental Antibody Treatment for Covid-19 Patients Wins 'Emergency Approval' in America 81
Are There Active Volcanoes on Mars? 29
Werner Herzog On Asteroids, Star Wars, and the 'Obscenity' of a City On Mars 152
In the Last Week America Experienced 1 Million New Coronavirus Cases 276
Does the Human Brain Resemble the Universe? 59
Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find 312
SpaceX Begins a Day With Two Falcon 9 Launches, Seventh Flight of a Recycled Rocket 10
Masks are Effective, Despite One Flawed Study From Denmark 152
T-Mobile Becomes First Carrier To Enable 988 Number For Mental Health Services 42
Astronomers Discover New 'Fossil Galaxy' Buried Deep Within the Milky Way 24
Rocket Lab Becomes Second Company After SpaceX To Launch and Land Orbital Rocket 65
Solar Power Stations in Space Could Be the Answer To Our Energy Needs 233
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
Twisted Graphene Could Power a New Generation of Superconducting Electronics 27
Scientists Produce Rare Diamonds In Minutes At Room Temperature 141
Famed Arecibo Telescope, On the Brink of Collapse, Will Be Dismantled 98
Oxford Study Confirms Astra Covid Shot's Response in Elderly 67
Human Error Blamed For European Vega Rocket Failure 139
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All 88
Immunity To the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint 68
1% of People Cause Half of Global Aviation Emissions, Study Says 126
Dinosaurs Were Not on the Way Out Before Asteroid Hit, Study Claims 117
New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective 231
Texas Astronomers Revive Idea For 'Ultimately Large Telescope' On the Moon 80
EU Plans To Increase Offshore Windfarm Capacity By 250% 111
Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution May Be a Logistical Nightmare 143
European Vega Rocket Fails for the Second Time During Launch in the Last Two Years 40
Amazon Launches Amazon Pharmacy For Prescription Medicine Delivery 36
4 Astronauts Aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Successfully Dock With Space Station 67
Coronavirus Emerged In Italy Earlier Than Thought, Study Shows 185
Moderna Becomes Second Firm To Reveal Positive Results With Nearly 95% Protection In Trials 119
SpaceX Launches a Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying a Crew Dragon Capsule With Four Astronauts 124
Study Claims 18% of Covid Patients Later Diagnosed with Mental Illness 116
An Amazonian Tea May Stimulate the Formation of New Brain Cells 53
Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test As Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel 103
Showing Cold Symptoms, Elon Musk Tests Positive - and Negative - for Covid-19 216
Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds 43
India To Get 100 Million Astra Vaccine Shots by Next Month 49
Microsoft: Russian, North Korean Cyberattacks Target COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts 28
Martian Dust Storms Parch the Planet By Driving Water Into Space 15
Ending Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Not Stop Global Warming, Study Says 303
Screening Travelers For Symptoms of COVID-19 Was Ineffective, CDC Study Says 88
Researchers 3-D Print Biomedical Parts With Supersonic Speed 14
Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Encouraging Results 81
Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID-19 Test Or Vaccination To Attend Concerts 152
McDonald's McPlant is Coming For Beyond Meat's Crown 86
UK Firm To Turn Moon Rock Into Oxygen and Building Materials 54
Why It's a Big Deal If the First COVID-19 Vaccine Is 'Genetic' 245
Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography 69
Chinese Glaciers Melting At 'Shocking' Pace, Scientists Say 73
Covid Superspreader Risk Is Linked To Restaurants, Gyms, Hotels 149
Scientists 3D Print Microscopic Star Trek Spaceship That Moves On Its Own 52
Emissions From US Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% In 2019 108
McDonald's To Launch a Plant-Based Burger: The McPlant 113
Scientists Find a New Way To Search for Habitable Exoplanets 11
NASA Administrator Says He Plans To Leave Position Under Biden Administration 197
Shot To Prevent HIV Works Better Than Daily Pill in Women 45
Pfizer Stuns Experts With Early Data that Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective 299
Looking For Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe 42
Scientists Discover Two New Mammals in Australia 27
How Long Do Most Species Last Before Going Extinct? 35
New Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds 90
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
Starlink Beta Testers Are Impressed With Its Speed 54
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
Scientists Discover Bizarre Hell Planet Where It Rains Rocks and Oceans Are Made of Lava 71
A One Hundred Thousand-Fold Enhancement In the Nonlinearity of Silicon 28
What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole? 126
India and Pakistan Dominate WHO's Air Pollution Database 18
Woman Sheds Coronavirus For 70 Days Without Symptoms 126
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star 17
The T-Cell Immune Response To COVID-19 Lasts At Least Six Months 49
Denmark Plans To Cull 15 Million Minks After Coronavirus Mutation Spreads To Humans 78
Dutch Brewery Burns Iron as a Clean, Recyclable Fuel 127
US Exceeds 100,000 New COVID-19 Cases For First Time 302
China Is Blocking the WHO From Investigating the Origins of the Coronavirus 154
We Finally Know What's Been Making Fast Radio Bursts 14
NASA Objects To New Mega-Constellation, Citing Risk of 'Catastrophic Collision' 39
GPS and Water Don't Mix. So Scientists Have Found a New Way To Navigate Under the Sea 15
MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even In Asymptomatic People 43
Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 111
How Many Alien Civilizations Are Out There? A New Galactic Survey Holds a Clue. 93
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Receives First Commands Since March 61
UK Contact Tracing App Failed To Flag People Exposed To COVID-19 46
Tiny Variants In Genes May Dictate Severity of Coronavirus 53
An Underwater Navigation System Powered by Sound 15
Slump in Air Travel Hindered Weather Forecasting, Study Shows 14
Australia Records Zero New COVID-19 Infections 220
In World First, Slovokia Plans To Test the Entire Country For COVID-19 80
Officials Raise Concerns About Software for the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Flown 71
Linux Foundation Creates Its Own Versions of Apple/Google Coronavirus Tracing Apps 50
How a Tiny Bit of Lacquer Grounded New Falcon 9 Rockets For a Month 21
Moderna On Track to Report COVID-19 Vaccine Late-Stage Trial Data in November 91
Scientists Discover New Molecule, Possible Basis For Life, on Saturn's Moon Titan 19
While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection 305
SpaceX Will 'Make Its Own Laws On Mars' 293
US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste 103
'Time Cells' Discovered In Human Brains 18
Chinese Spacecraft Set for Mars Landing in May: State Media 16
Humans Have Been Living In Space For 20 Years Straight 56
'Sleeping Giant' Arctic Methane Deposits Starting To Release, Scientists Find 280
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu 24
Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types 27
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
Scientists Discover Coral Reef Taller Than the Empire State Building 30
NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Midway To Mars 16
Daycares In Finland Built a 'Forest Floor,' and It Changed Children's Immune Systems 73
Folding@Home Exascale Supercomputer Finds Potential Targets For COVID-19 Cure 38

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