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Monday, November 16
What Really Is a Particle?
Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine
Corn Ethanol Seems to Be a Failure
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
Moderna Announces COVID Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective
Branswell & Herper, Stat
What COVID Vaccine Efficacy Above 90% Really Means
Zania Stamataki, The Conv
mRNA: How a Dismissed Idea Now Fuels COVID Vaccines
Saltzman & Garde, Stat
Mummy DNA Shows Tuberculosis Infected Humans Recently
A. Rossillo, Massive
Incredible Images Reveal a Triple Crater on Mars
Carly Cassella, Science Alert
SpaceX Launches 2nd Crew to ISS, Regular Flights Begin
Marcia Dunn, AP
The Role of Radioactive Elements in a Planet’s Habitability
Matt Williams, U-Today
The Most Hellish Planet Yet
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Air & Space Magazine
Archaeologists Just Beginning to Unearth Secrets of Saqqara
Jo Marchant, Sonian
We'll Need More Than One Vaccine to Beat COVID-19
Adam Rogers, Ars Technica
How Do Astronauts Escape a Failed Rocket Launch?
Doug Adler, Astronomy
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Sunday, November 15
Climate Scientists Debunk 'Point of No Return' Paper
Dharna Noor, Earther
Have Rogue Orcas Really Been Attacking Boats?
Victoria Gill, BBC
The Psychological Burdens of COVID Lockdowns
John Timmer, Ars Technica
Bacteria Found in Yogurt May Help Fractures Heal Faster
Krista Charles, NewSci
Wolf Attacks on Beavers Altering Landscape of National Park
Ben Goldfarb, Sci
What Determines If You Have a Good Sex Life as an Older Adult?
S. Jakobsen, SN
Technology and Natural Hazards Create 'Natech' Disasters
Megan Sever, SciNews
Do Neutron Star Collisions Produce Black Holes?
Brian Koberlein, Universe Today
Fort Dated to Time of Biblical King David Unearthed
Livia Gershon, Smithsonian
Recreating Big Bang Matter on Earth
Ana Lopes, CERN Courier
The Third Surge Is Breaking Health-Care Workers
Ed Yong, The Atlantic
Can We Control Where Lightning Strikes?
Lauren Fuge, Cosmos Magazine
Friday, November 13
This Is Not Another Wave
Elizabeth Cooney, Stat
Invention Helps You Sober Up by Exhaling Alcohol
Ed Cara, Gizmodo
Atmospheric Rivers Help Create Sea Ice Holes
Cosmos Magazine
When a Giant Mylar Balloon Was the Coolest Thing in Space
Allison Marsh, IEEE
The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations
Daniel Oberhaus, Wired
Redox-Less Electron Transfer Could Allow Powerful Batteries
James Urquhart, CW
Remains of Huge Viking 'Ship-Shaped' House Unearthed
Lasse Biørnstad, SciNor
Giant Lasers Re-create Supernovas' Mysterious Physics
Emily Conover, SciNews
Dust Storms on Mars Toss Water From Atmosphere Into Space
Leah Crane, NSci
US Takes an Important Step Toward Quantum Internet
Meredith Fore, Inside Science
The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
Adam Rogers, Wired
Why Did NASA Retire the Space Shuttle?
Doug Adler, Astronomy
Thursday, November 12
Why Do COVID Death Rates Seem to Be Falling?
Heidi Ledford, Nature
The People Whose Minds Are Completely Blank
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
How Should We Assess NASA's Jim Bridenstine?
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
Will the Coronavirus Evolve to Be Less Deadly?
Wendy Orent, Undark
Why Haven't We Found Alien Life? Blame Our Closed Minds
Steve Nadis, Astro
New Paper Claims Your Living Room Causes Diabetes
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0
Charles Darwin's Hunch About Early Life Was Probably Right
Michael Marshall, BBC
Relentless Invasion of the Cane Toad Continues
Natalie Parletta, Cosmos
200 Queens Found in Single Destroyed 'Murder Hornet' Nest
Peter Dockrill, SciAlert
The Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
Thomas Lewton, Quanta
Is Space Mining the Eco-Friendly Choice?
Bendebury & Shilo Delay, Astronomy
Leptoquarks Challenge the Standard Model
CERN Courier
Wednesday, November 11
'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography Achieved
Erica Klarreich, Quanta
Science's Top Ten Erroneous Results
Tom Siegfried, ScienceNews
Why Africa Hasn't Been Hit Hard by COVID-19
Emmanuel Gokpolu, Genetic Lit Project
The Occult History of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collins & Lin, Supercluster
In Pursuit of Right-Handed Photons
CERN Courier
When Did Humans First Go to War?
Martin Smith & John Stewart, The Conversation
Thermal Nuclear Engine Could Get Us to Mars in 3 Months
Caroline Delbert, PM
Microbes Can Mine Valuable Elements From Rocks in Space
George Dvorsky, Giz
The Denialist Playbook
Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American
'Diseases of Despair' Rising Across the U.S.
Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science
Does All the Gold in the Universe Come From Stars?
Raymond Shubinski, Astronomy
Where Is the Edge of the Universe?
Eric Betz, Astronomy
Tuesday, November 10
"The Origin of SARS-Cov-2 Is Being Seriously Questioned"
Yaroslav Pigenet, CNRS
Why I Hope to Die at 75
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic
Weird 'Gravitational Molecules' Could Orbit Black Holes
Paul Sutter, Live Science
The Controversy Over Who Discovered Neptune
Joel Davis, Astronomy
Female Mongooses Start Wars to Mate With Rival Males
Donna Lu, NewScientist
What Really Happened During Nero's Great Fire of Rome?
David Keys, Independent
Second Cable Fails at Arecibo, Damaging Famed SETI Dish
George Dvorsky, Gmodo
Pottery Fragments Hold Clues to Roanoke Colonists' Fate
Livia Gershon, Sonian
The Truth About Galileo and the Church
Steven Novella, Neurologica
The Word That Hasn’t Changed in Meaning in 8,000 Years
S. Nurkiyazova, Nautilus
Inside the Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
Kevin Hartnett, Quanta
Well-Preserved Two-Million-Year-Old Hominin Skull Found
Lauren Fuge, Cosmos
Monday, November 9
Pfizer's COVID Vaccine More Than 90% Effective
Matthew Herper, Stat
Four Reasons for Encouragement Based on Pfizer's Results
Helen Branswell, Stat
The Gruesome Rise of "Avocado Hand"
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
Major Modular Nuclear Project Having Difficulties
John Timmer, Ars Technica
How Long Do Most Species Last Before Going Extinct?
Tara Santora, Live Science
Alcohol, Bowel Movements May Confound Microbio Studies
Max Kozlov, The Sci
Claims of Voter Fraud Supercharged by Bad Science
Spenser Mestel, MIT Review
What's the Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time?
Jeremy Fox, Dynamic Ecology
Snake Vision Inspires Pyroelectric Material Design
Isabelle Dume, Physics World
Biggest Iceberg on Collision Course With Wildlife-Filled Island
G. Dvorsky, Earther
Carmakers Want to Use Auto Bodies for Energy Storage
Daniel Oberhaus, Ars Tech
Did the Great Wall of China Actually Keep Invaders Out?
Nathaniel Scharping, Disco
Sunday, November 8
Why We Will Never Eradicate the Coronavirus
Alex Berezow, ACSH
Many Popular Surgeries Are Ineffective
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
Swine Flu in Canada: What You Need to Know
John Drake, Forbes
Wombats' Have Crushing, Armored Bums
Matilda Boseley, The Guardian
How the Brain Predicts Outcomes
Steven Novella, Neurologica
Did the Polls Fail Again? It's Complicated.
Michael Schulson, Undark
How Sides of the Brain Adapt if They Can't Talk to Each Other
Clare Watson, SAlert
The Mysteries and Complexities of Chronic Itch
Katherine Harmon Courage, Knowable
Fix to Food Climate Problem Doesn't Require Veganism
Seth Borenstein, AP
Virtual Particles Do Not Exist
Pravit Shetty, Medium
Chemistry Shines a Light on Wine Fraud
Cosmos Magazine
Eocide: Should Killing Nature Be a Crime?
Sophie Yeo, BBC Future
Friday, November 6
The Problem With Honey Bees
Alison McAfee, Scientific American
Svalbard’s Mysterious Disappearing Shipwrecks
Matthew Halliday, Hakai
The Technologies That Could Transform Aging
Frank Swain, BBC Future
Ancient Burial Contains Child With No Arms or Legs
Laura Geggel, Live Science
The Hidden Public Health Hazard of Rapid COVID Tests
Joia Crear-Perry, Stat
No, the Black Hole Information Paradox Hasn’t Been Solved
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
The Controversial Cells That Saved 10 Million Lives
Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future
China Set to Retrieve First Moon Rocks in 40 Years
Smriti Mallapaty, Nature News
Texas Satellite Company Defends Itself Against NASA Criticism
Eric Berger, Ars
Is a New Coronavirus Strain Circulating in Farmed Minks?
Graham Lawton, NewSci
Fluffy Pterosaurs Reignite Debate Over Feather Origins
Zixiao & McNamara, Conv
How Dinosaurs Crossed Oceans
Science 2.0

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