In this page, you'll find links to selected science & technology news articles.
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April - 2022
"Jumping robot leaps to record heights," Nature, April 27, 2022.
December - 2021
"The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy of a Famous Egyptian Pharaoh Has Been Digitally Unwrapped," Science Alert, December 29, 2021.
"Happiness Through Work? The Science of Work-Life Balance Might Surprise You," Science Alert, December 28, 2021.
"Do Auroras Make Sounds We Can Hear? The True Answer Is Surprisingly Complicated," Science Alert, December 26, 2021.
"The James Webb Space Telescope Has Launched," Science Alert, December 25, 2021.
November- 2021
"NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid", Nature, November 19, 2021
September - 2021
"Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas", Nature, September 23, 2021
"Who Wants to be a Polar Bear?", Nature, September 6, 2021
"Can Ducks Actually Speak?", New Scientist, September 5, 2021
August - 2021
"Mammoths had a flash drive?", Nature, August 12, 2021
"Best Science Images of August", Nature, August 9, 2021
"Play Is a Serious Business for Elephants", Scientific American, August 1, 2021
July - 2021
"'Cyborg Soil' Unearths a Complex Web of Hidden Microbial Cities," ScienceAlert, July 24, 2021
"Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We're Getting Closer to Finding Out," ScienceAlert, July 23, 2021
"Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last," New York Times, July 23, 2021
"Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers," ScienceAlert, July 21, 2021
"NASA Releases First Detailed Map of the Insides of Mars," New York Times, July 20, 2021
"The Curiosity Rover May Have Discovered What Wiped Away Ancient Signs of Life on Mars," ScienceAlert, July 17, 2021
"With 319 Tb/s, Japan Absolutely Smashes World Record For Data Transmission Speed," ScienceAlert, July 15, 2021
June - 2021
"Scientists Have Calculated The Weight of All The SARS-CoV-2 in The World," ScienceAlert, June 9, 2021
"For The First Time, a Blood Test Can Tell if Cancer Treatment Is Working Right Away," ScienceAlert, June 9, 2021
"A Single Telescope Has Detected Hundreds of Mysterious Radio Signals From Space," ScienceAlert, June 9, 2021
"Reports of Severe Covid or Death After Vaccination Are Rare, but Not Unexpected," New York Times, June 9, 2021
"We're Going Back to Venus! NASA Announces Two New Missions by 2030", ScienceAlert, June 3, 2021
MAY - 2021
"Become an Outdoor Scientist," New York Times, May 29, 2021
"How New Zealand Used Evidence-Based Policies to Beat The Pandemic," ScienceAlert, May 29, 2021
"Archaeologists vs. Computers: A Study Tests Who’s Best at Sifting the Past," New York Times, May 27, 2021
"What Can and Can’t Be Learned From a Doctor in China Who Pioneered Masks," New York Times, May 19, 2021
"The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof," New York Times, May 12, 2021
"NASA's spacecraft is coming home with a souvenir from the Outerspace", New York Times, May 10, 2021
April - 2021
"NASA's Rover Makes Breathable Oxygen on Mars", BBC News, April 22, 2021
"Origami-Inspired Self-Supporting Structure", Nature, April 21, 2021
"142 Years Long Science Experiment and Still Continuing", New York Times, April 21, 2021
"Flying a Helicopter on Mars-NASA's Ingenuity", April 20, 2021
"Scientists Develop New Blood Test That Could Diagnose Your Level of Depression", ScienceAlert, April 17, 2021
"Calculation could dim hopes for new physics", ScienceMag, April 16, 2021
"Mind-Bending NASA Visualization Shows The Wild Warping of Binary Black Holes", ScienceAlert, April 16, 2021
"More Than 500 Genes Linking Depression And Anxiety Discovered in New Study", ScienceAlert, April 16, 2021
"‘It’s a Roller-Coaster Ride’: Global Chip Shortage Is Making Industries Sweat", New York Times, April 17, 2021
"DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared", ScienceMag, April 15, 2021
"A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics", New York Times, April 7, 2021
March - 2021
"Here's how the full moon helped free the stuck ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal", Space.com, March 29, 2021
"How NASA translated images of galaxies, blackholes into music", ThePrint, March 28, 2021
"Distributing Energy on The Moon Could Just Be a Matter of Bending Sunlight", ScienceAlert, March 27, 2021
"NFTs Are Neither Miracles nor Scams", New York Times, March 26, 2021
"Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Microbes That Are Invisible to Our Immune System", ScienceAlert, March 26, 2021
"The Most Intimate Portrait Yet of a Black Hole", New York Times, March 24, 2021
"Carmakers Strive to Stay Ahead of Hackers", New York Times, March 18, 2021
"If You Look at Your Phone While Walking, You’re an Agent of Chaos", New York Times, March 18, 2021
"Astronomers Can’t Hear Signals From Space Because Earth Is Too Loud," Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2021
February - 2021
"Ten must watch movies on National Science Day", The Tribune, February 28, 2021
"Physicists Just Reached a New Speed Limit For Moving Quantum Information", ScienceAlert, February 23, 2021
"Rover Landing on Mars", ScienceAlert, February 22, 2021
"The White Dots in This Image Are Not Stars or Galaxies. They're Black Holes", ScienceAlert, February 22, 2021
"No one-size-fits-all diet - learn about the million dollar study" - ScienceMag, February 1, 2021
January - 2021
"This One Spot on The International Space Station Is Kept Filthy – For Science" - ScienceAlert, January 24, 2021
"Here's Why Some COVID-19 Strains Are Spreading Faster Than Others" - ScienceAlert, January 23, 2021
"Sloppy science or groundbreaking idea? Theory for how cells organize contents divides biologists" - ScienceMag, January 21, 2021
"Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses" - New York Times, January 19, 2021
"For Better or Worse, COVID-19 Put Science Research in Front of More People Than Ever," ScienceAlert, January 15, 2021
"After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they?" - ScienceMag, January 7, 2021
"Will increasing traffic to the Moon contaminate its precious ice?" - Nature, 5 January, 2021
December - 2020
"Researchers unveil new method for converting carbon dioxide into jet fuel" - Washington Post, December 31, 2020
"In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why" - ScienceAlert, December 29, 2020
"Will My Popcorn Explode?" - New York Times, December 29, 2020
"Top 15 species discoveries from 2020" - MONGABAY, December 28, 2020
"Decades of Satellite Data Reveal One-Third of US Rivers Changing Their Color" - ScienceAlert, December 21, 2020
"The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us?" - New York Times, December 20, 2020
"Astronomers Spot Elusive 50 Million-Light-Year-Long Thread Tied to Cosmic Web" - ScienceAlert, December 20, 2020
"US authorization of first COVID vaccine marks new phase in safety monitoring" - Nature, December 11, 2020
"What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine?" - MIT Technology Review, December 9, 2020
"The 100 greatest innovations of 2020" - Popular Science, December 2, 2020
"AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology 'Grand Challenge' Decades Before Experts Predicted" - ScienceAlert, December 1, 2020
"Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico Collapses" - New York Times, December 1, 2020
November - 2020
"Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem" - Washington Post, November 28, 2020
"Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?" - New York Times, November 21, 2020