User:Prototyperspective/Year in science/List of nonincluded items for 2020

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Table of items that were not added to 2020 in science but, in most cases, were nearly included or not that easy to exclude.

2020 in science
Fields
Technology
Social sciences
Paleontology
Extraterrestrial environment
Terrestrial environment
Other/related

Most of them are significant, a fraction potentially should have been included, they may be interesting to some readers (e.g. for machine learning), and the rationales for non-inclusion provided for a fraction of items can be useful for understanding and further developing / articulating the inclusion-criteria.

The page may need further formatting, I don't think many will read it – partly it's just an organized resource for myself (possibly including for WP-editing) and for the sake of (approximating) completeness for articles to live up to their title of being about / describing one "year in science" each.

Some editors may also find this useful for finding tasks of things to do as a fraction of these items may be relevant to other articles; I don't think I'll go through them again to add them to any (other/highly-specific) articles. Probably most of the studies are likely relevant to at least article, especially if there is a wikilink in the last column.

However, not all of them (maybe not even most), many items are likely missing here (few of these even the year in science article), some have already been integrated into Wikipedia, and some may only or also be relevant to a timeline of a scientific field (see the timelines in the infobox linked on the right).

Having items in a table allows easily filtering and sorting items by field and other metadata, I proposed this for the year in science articles here, but currently don't even support it myself because of various problems with Wikipedia tables – bullet-points probably look better and could get supplemented with interactive tags (e.g. for scientific fields). Nevertheless, this also is a demonstration of an alternative layout for these articles.

Selection (initial discovery and in/exclusion decisions) could be the most laborious / difficult tasks of my monthly science summary related routine (monthly summary infographics and additions to the Wikipedia "Year in science" article and relevant WP edits). This table could be considered as a list of items that nearly but didn't make it through my / the proposed inclusion-filters.

You can sort the tables and the page is searchable by keywords (ctrl+F). For example, you can sort by scientific field or search for a scientific topic term.

For 2021 go here.

Not included[edit]

The list for 2020 is exceptionally short, there are more non-included items for 2021 – reasons for that probably include that I did not have an as good addition routine/methods, did not yet have good enough criteria, and haven't started to store the non-included items right from the start.

There are problems with tables in Wikipedia, if you can improve the max-widths and responsiveness at some point, please do.

Field Month Report Study Non-inclusion rationale/info Comment
BIO / HEALTH JAN Yoshida, Kenichi; Gowers, Kate H. C.; Lee-Six, Henry; Chandrasekharan, Deepak P.; Coorens, Tim; Maughan, Elizabeth F.; Beal, Kathryn; Menzies, Andrew; Millar, Fraser R.; Anderson, Elizabeth; Clarke, Sarah E.; Pennycuick, Adam; Thakrar, Ricky M.; Butler, Colin R.; Kakiuchi, Nobuyuki (2020-02). "Tobacco smoking and somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelium". Nature. 578 (7794): 266–272. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1961-1. ISSN 1476-4687. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
SPACEFLIGHT DEC Myers, Steven Lee; Chang, Kenneth (December 1, 2020). "China Lands Chang'e-5 Spacecraft on Moon to Gather Lunar Rocks and Soil" – via NYTimes.com.
ASTRO DEC University, Hokkaido. "Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites". phys.org.
ASTRO DEC "An updated way to calculate the likelihood of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations". phys.org."Computer Model Predicts When and Where Extraterrestrial Life Is Most Likely to Emerge in Our Galaxy (Spoiler: It's Not Here)". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Cai, Xiang; Jiang, Jonathan H.; Fahy, Kristen A.; Yung, Yuk L. (March 2021). "A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy". Galaxies. 9 (1): 5. doi:10.3390/galaxies9010005. ISSN 2075-4434.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) A preprint elaborates current data on when and where life is most likely to exist in the Milky Way and it identifies the most important factor affecting its prevalence
ASTROBIO DEC Institute, The Scripps Research. "Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Jiménez, Eddy I.; Gibard, Clémentine; Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan (May 3, 2021). "Prebiotic Phosphorylation and Concomitant Oligomerization of Deoxynucleosides to form DNA". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60 (19): 10775–10783. doi:10.1002/anie.202015910 – via DOI.org (Crossref). too low alt-metrics, wait for systematic investigation / conclusionish studies instead of "further evidence" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abiogenesis&diff=prev&oldid=996805225#RNA-DNA_world
DEC Center, University of Chicago Medical. "A simple rule drives the evolution of useless complexity". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-02-08. ?
ENVIRO DEC Fuller-Wright, Liz; University, Princeton. "What caused the ice ages? Tiny ocean fossils offer key evidence". phys.org.
DEC Schamiloglu, Edl; Conversation, The. "Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves – here's how the weapons work". phys.org.National Academies of Sciences, Engineering (December 5, 2020). "An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies" – via nap.nationalacademies.org. Crawford, Jamie (December 5, 2020). "'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says". CNN. "Former CIA officer details "Havana Syndrome" he says he suffered in Moscow: "An act of war"". www.cbsnews.com. ? Havana_syndrome#Theories_regarding_cause
ASTROBIO DEC Colyer, Reagan; University, Montana State. "Researchers find hydrogen-supported life beneath glaciers". phys.org.
BIOTECH DEC Berkeley, University of California-. "Using CRISPR, new technique makes it easy to map genetic networks". phys.org.
MEDICINE-SC2 DEC "Researchers find elevated biomarker for blood vessel damage in children with SARS-CoV-2". News-Medical.net. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Rhea, Elizabeth M.; Logsdon, Aric F.; Hansen, Kim M.; Williams, Lindsey M.; Reed, May J.; Baumann, Kristen K.; Holden, Sarah J.; Raber, Jacob; Banks, William A.; Erickson, Michelle A. (March 8, 2021). "The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier in mice". Nature Neuroscience. 24 (3): 368–378. doi:10.1038/s41593-020-00771-8 – via www.nature.com. ?
ASTRO DEC "Deepening Astronomical Mystery: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole". SciTechDaily. January 9, 2021. "On the hunt for a missing giant black hole". phys.org. no conclusion yet
QUANTUM SEPT "Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem". phys.org. "Quantencomputing fürs echte Leben | pro-physik.de". www.pro-physik.de. Vikstål, Pontus; Grönkvist, Mattias; Svensson, Marika; Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Göran; Ferrini, Giulia (September 3, 2020). "Applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to the Tail-Assignment Problem". Physical Review Applied. 14 (3): 034009. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034009 – via APS.
ASTRO DEC "Longest intergalactic gas filament discovered". phys.org. only confirmation & recording/ measurement
QUANTUM DEC "Researchers create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible". phys.org.
BIO DEC Yates, Diana; Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at. "Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees". phys.org. e.g. how new?
QUANTUM DEC "Researchers achieve sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation". phys.org. Valivarthi, Raju; Davis, Samantha I.; Peña, Cristián; Xie, Si; Lauk, Nikolai; Narváez, Lautaro; Allmaras, Jason P.; Beyer, Andrew D.; Gim, Yewon; Hussein, Meraj; Iskander, George; Kim, Hyunseong Linus; Korzh, Boris; Mueller, Andrew; Rominsky, Mandy; Shaw, Matthew; Tang, Dawn; Wollman, Emma E.; Simon, Christoph; Spentzouris, Panagiotis; Oblak, Daniel; Sinclair, Neil; Spiropulu, Maria (December 4, 2020). "Teleportation Systems Toward a Quantum Internet". PRX Quantum. 1 (2): 020317. doi:10.1103/PRXQuantum.1.020317 – via APS.
ENERGY DEC "Another plasma record for Korea's fusion researchers - Nuclear Engineering International". www.neimagazine.com. "South Korea’s National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) on 24 November announced that the K-STAR fusion reactor had managed to operate the plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds – the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor to have maintained plasma for more than 10 seconds at that temperature"
LONGEVITY DEC Ulgherait, Matt; Chen, Anna; McAllister, Sophie F.; Kim, Han X.; Delventhal, Rebecca; Wayne, Charlotte R.; Garcia, Christian J.; Recinos, Yocelyn; Oliva, Miles; Canman, Julie C.; Picard, Martin; Owusu-Ansah, Edward; Shirasu-Hiza, Mimi (April 21, 2020). "Circadian regulation of mitochondrial uncoupling and lifespan". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 1927. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15617-x – via www.nature.com. needs news articles & probably wait for human-related findings

Not-yet checked or missed[edit]

These items could go into the above section as non/nearly-included items or not or they should have been added (and theoretically still could be added of course).

Field Month Report Study Non-inclusion rationale/info Comment
ASTRO ? "Could Planet 9 be a primordial black hole?". phys.org.

"Planet Nine could actually be a hidden 'primordial' black hole, study finds". Sky News.

Siraj, Amir; Loeb, Abraham (July 16, 2020). "Searching for Black Holes in the Outer Solar System with LSST". The Astrophysical Journal. 898 (1): L4. arXiv:2005.12280. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aba119 – via arXiv.org.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

Hoang, Thiem; Loeb, Abraham (June 1, 2020). "Can Planet Nine Be Detected Gravitationally by a Sub-Relativistic Spacecraft?". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 895 (2): L35. arXiv:2005.01120. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab92a7 – via arXiv.org.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) Witten, Edward (May 1, 2020). "Searching for a Black Hole in the Outer Solar System". arXiv:2004.14192 – via arXiv.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Scholtz, Jakub; Unwin, James (July 29, 2020). "What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?". Physical Review Letters. 125 (5): 051103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051103 – via APS.

Planet 9; multi-item? SEP 2019?
JAN "The oldest fungi fossils have been identified in a Belgian museum". New Scientist. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Bonneville, S.; Delpomdor, F.; Préat, A.; Chevalier, C.; Araki, T.; Kazemian, M.; Steele, A.; Schreiber, A.; Wirth, R.; Benning, L. G. (2020-01-24). "Molecular identification of fungi microfossils in a Neoproterozoic shale rock". Science Advances. 6 (4): eaax7599. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax7599. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6976295. PMID 32010783.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) oldest, molecularly identified remains of Fungi
JAN https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/4/815/5762999
HEALTH / SENESCENCE JAN Mack, Eric. "An Exercise Pill Could Be Possible, New Research Finds". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Kim, Myungjin; Sujkowski, Alyson; Namkoong, Sim; Gu, Bondong; Cobb, Tyler; Kim, Boyoung; Kowalsky, Allison H.; Cho, Chun-Seok; Semple, Ian; Ro, Seung-Hyun; Davis, Carol; Brooks, Susan V.; Karin, Michael; Wessells, Robert J.; Lee, Jun Hee (2020-01-13). "Sestrins are evolutionarily conserved mediators of exercise benefits". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 190. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13442-5. ISSN 2041-1723.
FEB Aaltonen, Lauri A.; Abascal, Federico; Abeshouse, Adam; Aburatani, Hiroyuki; Adams, David J.; Agrawal, Nishant; Ahn, Keun Soo; Ahn, Sung-Min; Aikata, Hiroshi; Akbani, Rehan; Akdemir, Kadir C.; Al-Ahmadie, Hikmat; Al-Sedairy, Sultan T.; Al-Shahrour, Fatima; Alawi, Malik (February 2020). "Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes". Nature. 578 (7793): 82–93. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1969-6. ISSN 1476-4687.
FEB "Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas May Be Significantly Underestimated". Scientific American.
FEB "NASA's InSight lander has detected humming on Mars. Scientists aren't sure why". Science. February 24, 2020.
MAR Wade, Nicholas (March 24, 2020). "Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells" – via NYTimes.com. Sarkar, Tapash Jay; Quarta, Marco; Mukherjee, Shravani; Colville, Alex; Paine, Patrick; Doan, Linda; Tran, Christopher M.; Chu, Constance R.; Horvath, Steve; Qi, Lei S.; Bhutani, Nidhi; Rando, Thomas A.; Sebastiano, Vittorio (March 24, 2020). "Transient non-integrative expression of nuclear reprogramming factors promotes multifaceted amelioration of aging in human cells". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 1545. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15174-3 – via www.nature.com. Induced pluripotent stem cell#Anti-aging properties"In their paper on Tuesday, the Stanford team described a feasible way to deliver Yamanaka factors to cells taken from patients, by dosing cells kept in cultures with small amounts of the factors.

If dosed for a short enough time, the team reported, the cells retained their identity but returned to a youthful state, as judged by several measures of cell vigor.

...

The Stanford team extracted aged cartilage cells from patients with osteoarthritis and found that after a low dosage of Yamanaka factors the cells no longer secreted the inflammatory factors that provoke the disease. The team also found that human muscle stem cells, which are impaired in a muscle-wasting disease, could be restored to youth."

MAY Bologna, Mauro; Aquino, Gerardo (May 6, 2020). "Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 7631. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-63657-6 – via www.nature.com. [1]
MAY "New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet". May 13, 2020. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/20/eaaz0298 "And with more advances, chimeras could ultimately turn out to be a source of human organs."
COSMOLOGY MAY Knapton, Sarah (October 6, 2020). "An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner" – via www.telegraph.co.uk. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/495/3/3403/5838759 Conformal cyclic cosmology
APRIL Overbye, Dennis (April 15, 2020). "Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing" – via NYTimes.com. "Constraint on the matter–antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations". Nature. 580 (7803): 339–344. April 8, 2020. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2177-0 – via www.nature.com. T2K experiment
ASTRO / PHYS APRIL V404 Cygni
JUNE "Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management". phys.org.
JUNE "Prevalence of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection - PMC".
MEDICINE-SC2 JUNE "Why some COVID-19 infections may be free of symptoms but not free of harm". Science. September 1, 2021.
JULY "Plants take in less carbon in a warming world". phys.org.
JULY Vollset, Stein Emil; Goren, Emily; Yuan, Chun-Wei; Cao, Jackie; Smith, Amanda E.; Hsiao, Thomas; Bisignano, Catherine; Azhar, Gulrez S.; Castro, Emma; Chalek, Julian; Dolgert, Andrew J.; Frank, Tahvi; Fukutaki, Kai; Hay, Simon I.; Lozano, Rafael; Mokdad, Ali H.; Nandakumar, Vishnu; Pierce, Maxwell; Pletcher, Martin; Robalik, Toshana; Steuben, Krista M.; Wunrow, Han Yong; Zlavog, Bianca S.; Murray, Christopher J. L. (October 17, 2020). "Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study". The Lancet. 396 (10258): 1285–1306. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2. PMID 32679112 – via www.thelancet.com.
JULY Institute, Niels Bohr. "New study warns: We have underestimated the pace at which the Arctic is melting". phys.org.
QUANTUM JULY "Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state". phys.org.
JULY "Watch a 3D printer spit out an entire two-story house". Futurism.
JULY "Venom glands similar to those of snakes are found for first time in amphibians". phys.org. Mailho-Fontana, Pedro Luiz; Antoniazzi, Marta Maria; Alexandre, Cesar; Pimenta, Daniel Carvalho; Sciani, Juliana Mozer; Brodie, Edmund D.; Jared, Carlos (July 24, 2020). "Morphological Evidence for an Oral Venom System in Caecilian Amphibians". iScience. 23 (7). doi:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101234. PMID 32621800 – via www.cell.com.
JULY "Sternenexplosion nahe der Erde - Zusammenhang mit Eiszeiten des Pleistozän?". idw-online.de.Munich, Technical University. "Stellar explosion in Earth's proximity". phys.org. Korschinek, G.; Faestermann, T.; Poutivtsev, M.; Arazi, A.; Knie, K.; Rugel, G.; Wallner, A. (July 17, 2020). "Supernova-Produced $^{53}\mathrm{Mn}$ on Earth". Physical Review Letters. 125 (3): 031101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.031101 – via APS.
MEDICINE-SC2 JULY https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/08/31/interferons-coronavirus-immune-boost/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/718
AUG Chawla, Louise (September 8, 2020). Gould, Rachelle (ed.). "Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of research on connecting with nature and coping with environmental loss". People and Nature. 2 (3): 619–642. doi:10.1002/pan3.10128 – via DOI.org (Crossref).
AUG "Second alignment plane of solar system discovered". phys.org. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aba94d
MAR https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/article/116/11/1910/5770885#207231614
QUANTUM AUG "Bringing a power tool from math into quantum computing". phys.org.
AUG University, Tel Aviv. "New technology allows cameras to capture colors invisible to the human eye". phys.org. new / improved tool
ASTRO AUG Christou, Apostolos; Observatory, Armagh. "Mars plays shepherd to our moon's long-lost twin, scientists find". phys.org.
MEDICINE AUG "In a first, a person's immune system fought HIV — and won". August 26, 2020.
BIO / MEDICINE AUG Gregory, Ann C.; Zablocki, Olivier; Zayed, Ahmed A.; Howell, Allison; Bolduc, Benjamin; Sullivan, Matthew B. (2020-11-11). "The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut". Cell Host & Microbe. 28 (5): 724–740.e8. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2020.08.003. ISSN 1931-3128. PMID 32841606.

follow-up: Nayfach, Stephen; Páez-Espino, David; Call, Lee; Low, Soo Jen; Sberro, Hila; Ivanova, Natalia N.; Proal, Amy D.; Fischbach, Michael A.; Bhatt, Ami S.; Hugenholtz, Philip; Kyrpides, Nikos C. (July 2021). "Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome". Nature Microbiology. 6 (7): 960–970. doi:10.1038/s41564-021-00928-6. ISSN 2058-5276.

first catalog of viral populations known to inhabit the human gut. Called the Gut Virome Database
WATER AUG Snowden, Scott. "Researchers Have Pioneered A Technique To Purify Water By Using The Power Of Sunlight". Forbes. Ou, Ranwen; Zhang, Huacheng; Truong, Vinh X.; Zhang, Lian; Hegab, Hanaa M.; Han, Li; Hou, Jue; Zhang, Xiwang; Deletic, Ana; Jiang, Lei; Simon, George P.; Wang, Huanting (December 8, 2020). "A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination". Nature Sustainability. 3 (12): 1052–1058. doi:10.1038/s41893-020-0590-x – via www.nature.com. Metal-organic framework#Desalination/ion separation
BIO SEPT Tomkins, James E.; Ferrari, Raffaele; Vavouraki, Nikoleta; Hardy, John; Lovering, Ruth C.; Lewis, Patrick A.; McGuffin, Liam J.; Manzoni, Claudia (December 8, 2020). "PINOT: an intuitive resource for integrating protein-protein interactions". Cell Communication and Signaling. 18 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1186/s12964-020-00554-5 – via biosignaling.biomedcentral.com.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
SEPT https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/498/4/5720/5902861
PHYSICS / QUANTSCI SEPT Tobar, Germain; Costa, Fabio (2020-09-21). "Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37 (20): 205011. doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc. ISSN 0264-9381. ?
ASTRO SEPT "Breakthrough Initiatives". breakthroughinitiatives.org.
PSYCHED SEPT "Ever wonder how LSD works? An answer has been discovered". Gq alpha subunit#Function
MEDICINE-SC2 SEPT "Evaporation critical to coronavirus transmission as weather changes". phys.org.
COMPUTING SEPT Berkeley, University of California-. "Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers". phys.org. summary/review? Talk:Graphene nanoribbon
MEDICINE SEPT "Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn's". Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1
PHYSICS SEPT "Young physicist 'squares the numbers' on time travel". phys.org.
MEDICINE SEPT Hollis, Morgan; Society, Royal Astronomical. "Seeing dark matter in a new light". phys.org. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/499/4/4591/5909978
PHYS SEPT "Extremely rare Higgs boson decay process spotted".
PHYS SEPT Mogul, Rakesh; Limaye, Sanjay S.; Way, M. J.; Cordova Jr, Jamie A. (April 16, 2021). "Venus' Mass Spectra Show Signs of Disequilibria in the Middle Clouds". Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (7). arXiv:2009.12758. doi:10.1029/2020GL091327 – via arXiv.org.
BIO SEPT Valstar, Matthijs H.; Bakker, Bernadette S. de; Steenbakkers, Roel J. H. M.; Jong, Kees H. de; Smit, Laura A.; Nulent, Thomas J. W. Klein; Es, Robert J. J. van; Hofland, Ingrid; Keizer, Bart de; Jasperse, Bas; Balm, Alfons J. M.; Schaaf, Arjen van der; Langendijk, Johannes A.; Smeele, Ludi E.; Vogel, Wouter V. (January 1, 2021). "The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapy". Radiotherapy and Oncology. 154: 292–298. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.034. PMID 32976871 – via www.thegreenjournal.com. ! Tubarial salivary gland
MEDICINE-SC2 SEPT "Study: Vitamin D deficiency may raise risk of getting COVID-19". e.g. not MEDRS
MEDICINE-SC2 SEPT "Adequate levels of vitamin D reduces complications, death among COVID-19 patients". medicalxpress.com.
MEDICINE-SC2 SEPT "Lower zinc levels in the blood are associated with an increased risk of death in patients with COVID-19".
MEDICINE-SC2 SEPT Kelly, Morgan; University, Princeton. "Largest COVID-19 contact-tracing finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders". medicalxpress.com.
ASTRO SEPT Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for. "The spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way". phys.org. Fragione, Giacomo; Loeb, Abraham (October 1, 2020). "An Upper Limit on the Spin of SgrA* Based on Stellar Orbits in Its Vicinity". The Astrophysical Journal. 901 (2): L32. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abb9b4.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) Sagittarius A*
SEPT Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for. "Simulations reveal that rocky super-Earths with thin atmospheres are often protected by a Jupiter-like planet". phys.org. https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202038554 !
SEPT Tobar, Germain; Costa, Fabio (September 21, 2020). "Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37 (20): 205011. doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc.
SEPT "Ecologists confirm Alan Turing's theory for Australian fairy circles". phys.org. Fairy circle (arid grass formation)#Formation and controversy
SEPT Berlin, Freie Universitaet. "Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation". phys.org.
OCT Wogan, Nicholas; Krissansen-Totton, Joshua; Catling, David C. (October 29, 2020). "Abundant Atmospheric Methane from Volcanism on Terrestrial Planets Is Unlikely and Strengthens the Case for Methane as a Biosignature". The Planetary Science Journal. 1 (3): 58. doi:10.3847/psj/abb99e.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) strengthens case for atmospheric CH4 with CO2 as a biosignature
OCT Arenschield, Laura; University, The Ohio State. "The universe is getting hot, hot, hot, a new study suggests". phys.org. Chiang, Yi-Kuan; Makiya, Ryu; Ménard, Brice; Komatsu, Eiichiro (October 1, 2020). "The Cosmic Thermal History Probed by Sunyaev–Zeldovich Effect Tomography". The Astrophysical Journal. 902 (1): 56. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb403.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
OCT Wright, William; University, Australian National. "New tractor beam has potential to tame lightning". phys.org. Shvedov, V.; Pivnev, E.; Davoyan, A. R.; Krolikowski, W.; Miroshnichenko, A. E. (October 20, 2020). "Optical beaming of electrical discharges". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 5306. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19183-0 – via www.nature.com.
OCT "Gastrointestinal-resident, shape-changing microdevices for extended drug delivery". phys.org. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabb4133 Ancylostoma duodenale

Drug delivery

ASTRO OCT Centre, ESA/Hubble Information. "New Hubble data explains missing dark matter". phys.org. Montes, Mireia; Infante-Sainz, Raúl; Madrigal-Aguado, Alberto; Román, Javier; Monelli, Matteo; Borlaff, Alejandro S.; Trujillo, Ignacio (November 26, 2020). "The galaxy "missing dark matter" NGC1052-DF4 is undergoing tidal disruption". The Astrophysical Journal. 904 (2): 114. arXiv:2010.09719. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abc340 – via arXiv.org.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
ENVIRO OCT "Fires in Brazil's Amazon the worst in a decade, data shows". October 1, 2020 – via www.reuters.com.
NOV https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/49/D1/D1259/6007662
ECONOMICS NOV Herrington, Gaya (June 8, 2021). "Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data". Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25 (3): 614–626. doi:10.1111/jiec.13084 – via DOI.org (Crossref).
ENVIRO NOV "Tourism mainly responsible for marine litter on Mediterranean beaches". phys.org. Grelaud, Michaël; Ziveri, Patrizia (November 23, 2020). "The generation of marine litter in Mediterranean island beaches as an effect of tourism and its mitigation". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 20326. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-77225-5 – via www.nature.com.
NOV "New Chinese submersible reaches Earth's deepest ocean trench".
MATERIALS NOV "Scientists make sustainable polymer from sugars in wood". phys.org.
PHYS / COSMOLOGY NOV "Unique prediction of 'modified gravity' challenges dark matter theory". December 18, 2020."Unique prediction of 'modified gravity' challenges dark matter theory". https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbb96#apjabbb96f2 Dark matter

Modified Newtonian dynamics Equivalence principle

ASTRO NOV "Scientists find black holes could reach 'stupendously large' sizes".
MEDICINE-SC2 NOV Pereira, Marcos; Dantas Damascena, Alialdo; Galvão Azevedo, Laylla Mirella; de Almeida Oliveira, Tarcio; da Mota Santana, Jerusa (February 10, 2022). "Vitamin D deficiency aggravates COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis". Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 62 (5): 1308–1316. doi:10.1080/10408398.2020.1841090. PMID 33146028 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
DEC An accepted preprint proposes that the mythological stories of "Seven Sisters", apparently related to the star cluster Pleiades, in vastly separated cultures such as Australian Aboriginal cultures and Greek cultures which regard the cluster as having seven stars while acknowledging only six to be visible with an explanation for why the seventh is invisible may be explained by predating around 100.000 years ago when the seventh star was much more visible and before the departure of most modern humans out of Africa."The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years". phys.org. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
DEC "Buildings-related carbon dioxide emissions hit record high: UN".


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