science news 2020
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Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire
The campfire was a social hub for ancient humans, and a virtual reality investigation suggests that the flickering light may…
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Climate change and farming may have halved some insect populations
Warmer temperatures and intense agriculture may be responsible for a 49 per cent decline in insect numbers in some areas,…
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Dutch pledge nearly $1 billion to support underground gravitational wave detector
An underground observatory that could detect gravitational waves from the far reaches of the universe is one step closer to…
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Pterosaurs May Have Had Brightly Colored Feathers, Exquisite Fossil Reveals
Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with…
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Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath, and Survive
Joanna Thompson: This is Scientific American’s 60 second science. I’m Joanna Thompson. In 2018, a group of astronomers from Yale…
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Covid-19 news: Shanghai reports first deaths in its omicron wave
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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Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos
How fast is the universe expanding? How much does matter clump up in our cosmic neighborhood? Different methods of answering…
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Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways
Power in nonhuman animals used to play out in such a tidy and simple way. Bigger, stronger animals beat up…
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China Is Hatching a Plan to Find Earth 2.0
After sending robots to the Moon, landing them on Mars and building its own space station, China is now eyeing…
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U.S. bills would make it easier to study health effects of marijuana
For decades, marijuana’s federal criminal status has raised obstacles for researchers trying to study the plant’s health impacts, such as…
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