science news 2020
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Political Affiliation Influences Our Fear of Data Collection
Throughout history, governments have exploited or collected data on their citizens—from benign data, like salary information and census records, to creepy…
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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…
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Covid-19 news: Record 2 million people in UK have long covid
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
Some editorials simply hurt to write. This is one. At least 19 elementary school children and two teachers are dead,…
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Science Must Not Be Used To Foster White Supremacy
The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted…
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Could monkeypox become a pandemic? Here’s everything you need to know
By Michael Le Page Monkeypox virus particles captured via a coloured transmission electron micrograph UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY…
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Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow
Theoretical physics is full of weird and wonderful concepts: wormholes, quantum foam and multiverses, just to name a few. The…
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How did US baby formula get contaminated with dangerous bacteria?
By Carrie Arnold Low stock of baby formula at a grocery store in Athens, Georgia Shutterstock / The Toidi Nearly…
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Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA–Protein Hybrid Gets New Support
Chemists say they have solved a crucial problem in a theory of life’s beginnings, by demonstrating that RNA molecules can…
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Climate Change Caused $4 Billion of Typhoon’s Damage
CLIMATEWIRE | Scientists have found the fingerprint of global warming on Typhoon Hagibis, a monster cyclone that swept through Japan…
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