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Top Science News
November 9, 2020
Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky Planets
Early Big-Game Hunters Were Likely Female
Positive Outlook Predicts Less Memory Decline
Touch and Taste? It’s All in the Tentacles
Nov. 6, 2020 — According to new research using data from NASA’s retired planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope, about half the stars similar in …
Latest Top Headlines
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Nov. 6, 2020 — Paleontologists have described for the first time an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus and discovered that it looked very similar to its parents even at a young age. That could have important implications for how the young animals lived and moved around. The young Plateosaurus, …
Health News
November 9, 2020
Reviving Cells After a Heart Attack
‘Silent’ Mutations Helped Give Coronavirus Edge
New Key Player in Long-Term Memory
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Genome Editing
Oct. 7, 2020 — This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is being awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome …
Latest Health Headlines
updated 9:01am EST
Poor Nutrition in School Years May Have Created 20 Cm Height Gap Across Nations
Nov. 5, 2020 — A new global analysis has assessed the height and weight of school-aged children and adolescents across the …
Physical/Tech News
November 9, 2020
Wave: Some Exoplanets May Be Able to See Us, Too
NASA Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid
Detecting the Universe’s Missing Mass
Magnetic Fields On Moon from Old Core Dynamo
Oct. 15, 2020 — A long discussed theory about the local magnetic spots of the moon suggests that they are the result of magnetization processes caused by impacts of massive bodies on the moon surface. A new study …
Latest Physical/Tech Headlines
updated 9:01am EST
Blueprints for a Cheaper Single-Molecule Microscope
Nov. 6, 2020 — A team of scientists and students has designed and built a specialist microscope, and shared the build instructions to help make this equipment available to many labs across the …
Environment News
November 9, 2020
COVID-19’s Massive Impact On Carbon Emissions
Evolutionary Secrets of the Banyan Tree
Nitrous Oxide Emissions Pose Climate Threat
Dinosaur Feather Study Debunked
Sep. 30, 2020 — A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic bird-like dinosaur, Archaeopteryx. This debunks a recent theory that the fossil …
Latest Environment Headlines
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Seabirds’ Response to Abrupt Climate Change Transformed Sub-Antarctic Island Ecosystems
Nov. 5, 2020 — A 14,000-year paleoecological reconstruction of the sub-Antarctic islands done by an international research team including HKU has found that seabird establishment occurred during a period of regional cooling 5,000 years ago. Their populations, in turn, shifted the Falkland Island ecosystem through the deposit of high concentrations of guano that …
Society/Education News
November 9, 2020
How Coronavirus Took Hold in N. America, Europe
Strict Social Distancing, Lower COVID-19 Risk
Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in God?
Brain Circuit Damaged by Social Isolation
Aug. 31, 2020 — Researchers have identified specific sub-populations of brain cells in the prefrontal cortex, a key part of the brain that regulates social behavior, …
Latest Society/Education Headlines
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Children Will Wait to Impress Others — Another Twist on the Classic Marshmallow Test
Sep. 10, 2020 — When it comes to self-control, young children are better able to resist temptation and wait for greater rewards if they take into consideration the opinions of …
A Drop in Temperature
Positive Outlook Predicts Less Memory Decline
Where Were Jupiter and Saturn Born?
NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon
About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets
Early Big-Game Hunters of the Americas Were Female, Researchers Suggest
Touch and Taste? It’s All in the Tentacles
Baby Dinosaurs Were ‘Little Adults’