Week of October 26, 2020 Archives

RealClearScience Morning Edition

Monday, October 26
The Dementia That Can Be Cured
David Cox, The Guardian
Uncovering the Brilliance of an Ancient Industrial Complex
Ross Pomeroy, RCSci
Ghostly Galactic Haloes Could Reveal Dark Matter
Andreea Font, The Conversation
A New 'Chemputer' Aims to Digitize Chemistry
Charlie Wood, CNBC
Dreams Are More Complex Depending on Sleep Stage
Carly Cassella, Science Alert
How Can Climate Be Predictable if Weather Is Chaotic?
Sabine Hossenfelder, B-react
NASA Probe Leaking Asteroid Samples
Joey Roulette, Reuters
Biomolecule Mass Spectrometry Enters New Dimension
Johanna L. Miller, P-Today
Physicists 3D Print a Boat That Could Sail Down a Human Hair
John Biggs, Giz
Was the International Space Station Worth It?
Robin McKie, The Guardian
Science Journal Editors Shouldn't Politicize Science
Genevieve P. Kanter, Stat
Can Planets Be Pear-Shaped?
Alison Klesman, Astronomy
Tuesday, October 27
Common Stat About COVID and Masks Is Wrong
Ivan Oransky, R-Watch
The Spooky and Dangerous Side of Black Licorice
Bill Sullivan, The Conversation
How the Malaria Parasite Hides in Human Blood
Donna Lu, NewScientist
Scientists Reveal What May Be the Largest Flying Bird Ever
Riley Black, Sonian
How Bats Survive Deadly Viruses Better Than Humans
Charles Q. Choi, Inside Sci
Murder Hornets Found and Destroyed
Steven Novella, Neurologica
I'm Hesitant to Identify as a COVID-19 Long-Hauler
Pooja Yerramilli, Stat
Pushing a Fundamental Limit of Lasers
Lauren Fuge, Cosmos Magazine
The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
Alice Fleerackers, Nautilus
'Black Widow' Star Identified as Source of Mystery Radiation
Michelle Starr, ScAlert
Why Food Allergies Are on the Rise
Ralph Jones, BBC Future
Wednesday, October 28
Cracks in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Tim Andersen, Medium
Why It's Getting Harder to Mine Gold
Chris Baraniuk, BBC Future
Can Lab-Grown Brains Become Conscious?
Sara Reardon, Nature News
The Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine and Addiction
R. Douglas Fields, Quanta
Fireflies’ Light Show Might Spark Advances in Robots
Courtney Holden, Smithonian
Meteorite That Fell on Lake Has 'Pristine' Organic Compounds
Becky Ferreira, MB
If a Robot Is Conscious, Is It OK to Turn It Off?
Anand Vaidya, The Conversation
Asteroid Apophis Could Still Hit Earth in 2068
George Dvorsky, Gizmodo
What Happens at the Center of a Black Hole?
Paul Sutter, Space.com
Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Real Differences
Lydia Denworth, SA
Sleeping Giant Arctic Methane Deposits Starting to Release
Jonathan Watts, Guard
Smaller Tokamak Could Follow ITER Fusion
Chris Lee, Ars Technica
Thursday, October 29
Did James Randi "Destroy Skepticism"?
Orac, Respectful Insolence
3 Ways to Make Artificial Gravity in Space
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
Climate Scientists Fly More Often
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Nature
Galileo's Gravity Experiment Holds With Individual Atoms
Emily Conover, SciNews
Will Our Solar System Survive the Death of Our Sun?
Paul Sutter, Space.com
The Strange Ingredients Found in Vaccines
Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta
Brain’s Electromagnetic Fields the Seat of Consciousness?
Tam Hunt, Nautilus
A Great African Gene Migration
Deborah Devis, Cosmos Magazine
There's a Silent Crisis in Clinical Research
Kent Thoelke, Stat
Human Bodies Are Running Cooler, Even in the Amazon
Gurven & Kraft, The Conv
The Ungentle Joy of Spider Sex
Stephanie Pain, Knowable Magazine
Friday, October 30
Most Famous Physics Paradox Nears Its End
George Musser, Quanta
Why Albert Einstein Rejected Being President of Israel
Ryan Fan, Medium
The Decapitation Experiments of Jean César Legallois
Jess Romeo, JSTOR Daily
Bizarre Ancient Species Are Rewriting Animal Evolution
Traci Watson, Nature News
How to Make Restaurants Safer During the Pandemic
Charlotte Jee, MIT Review
Dogs Domesticated Once From a Lost Population of Wolves
Kiona N. Smith, Ars
Octopuses Taste Their Food With Their Arms
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, NewScientist
What We Can Learn From 1918's Deadly Second Wave
Kristen Rogers, CNN
Failed Planet in Asteroid Belt Is Slowly Rusting
Michelle Starr, Live Science
The Top COVID-19 Hucksters and Grifters
Scott Gavura, Science-Based Medicine
Time to Reset Expectations on a COVID-19 Vaccine
Helen Branswell, Stat
Four Giant Telescopes Are About to Rock Astronomy
Richard Talcott, Astronomy
Sunday, November 1
When Deinosuchus Ruled the Earth
Riley Black, Hakai Magazine
Cahokian Culture Spread Across N. America 1,000 Years Ago
Jayur Mehta, Conv
11 Female Astronauts Who Pioneered Spaceflight
Eric Betz, Astronomy
Ring-Shaped Molecule on Titan Could Be Building Block to Life
Leah Crane, NSci
Why Did Ancient Egyptian Scribes Use Lead-Based Ink?
Nora McGreevy, Sonian
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
Aubrey Clayton, Nautilus
At Least 300 Million Habitable Worlds in the Milky Way?
Michelle Starr, Sci Alert
How a Wartime Disaster Led to a Cancer Breakthrough
Mark Wolverton, Undark
What 50 Gravitational Waves Reveal About the Universe
Davide Castelvecchi, Nature
A Promising Lead for Preventing Severe Forms of COVID-19
Laure Cailloce, CNRS
New Limits on Exotic Types of Long-Lived Particles
CERN Courier
Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Atoll Formation
Lakshmi Sandhana, Eos
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