science news 2019
- Science
Better Face Masks Are Possible: Here Are Some Winning Designs
High-quality masks called respirators, such as N95s and KN95s, offer strong protection against the spread of COVID-19. But when it…
Read More » - Science
Suicides among Black People May Be Vastly Undercounted
Ian Rockett has spent much of his career working closely with coroners and medical examiners researching the epidemiology of suicide.…
Read More » - Science
Attribution Science Linking Warming to Disasters Is Rapidly Advancing
CLIMATEWIRE | For two decades, scientists have been getting better and faster at investigating the links between individual weather events…
Read More » - Science
Sex Life of One of Earth’s Earliest Animals Exposed
Trilobites are perhaps the most successful group of animals ever to live. Named for their distinctive three-lobed body, these armored,…
Read More » - Science
Farmers in England will bury burnt wood in fields to capture CO2
A large trial is underway to see how much CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere by burying a charcoal-like…
Read More » - Science
This New Album Makes Beautiful Music out of Gravity, the Elements and Photosynthesis
Two years and counting into the COVID pandemic, we’ve all seen plenty of misinformation and junk science, whether online, on…
Read More » - Science
Teleportation trick shows promise for a future quantum internet
Quantum information has been sent from one side of a simple quantum network to the other, passing through an intermediate…
Read More » - Science
Female mice release banana-scented urine when pregnant to deter males
Pregnant and lactating female mice release a banana-smelling chemical in their urine that is thought to stress out males so…
Read More » - Science
We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Robots or advanced artificial intelligences that “wake up” and become conscious are a staple of thought experiments and science fiction.…
Read More » - Science
Extraterrestrials and the Search for Life
Introduction We Might Not Be Aloneby Jesse Emspak Section 1: Where is Everybody? 1.1 The Fermi Paradox Is Not Fermi’s,…
Read More »
