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Week of November 9, 2020 Archives
RealClearScience
Morning
Edition
Monday, November 9
Four Reasons for Encouragement Based on Pfizer's Results
Helen Branswell
,
Stat
Pfizer's COVID Vaccine More Than 90% Effective
Matthew Herper
,
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
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
, G
modo
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
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
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
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
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