News Archive | November 2020

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November 30th
- Chinese submarine reaches the deepest place on Earth
- Moderna's coronavirus vaccine is highly effective, final analysis shows
- Escaped mink could spread the coronavirus to wild animals
- Alligators can regrow their tails, surprising scientists
- Is the Boeing 737 Max safe enough to fly?
- Our solar system will disintegrate sooner than we thought
- Dangerous 'naked' black holes could be hiding in the universe
November 29th
- How much snow is needed for an official 'White Christmas'?
November 28th
- How do fax machines work?
November 27th
- Catch the full moon (and a penumbral eclipse) on Monday
November 26th
- A Thanksgiving sun treat: Big sunspot rotates into view
- Is China winning the new space race?
- Swarm of eels breaks record for most fish ever spotted at one time in abyssal ocean
- Swarms of 'primordial' black holes might fill our universe
- Megalodon nurseries reveal world’s largest shark had a soft side
- Why do cats meow?
November 25th
- Dino-era bird had the head of a Velociraptor and beak of a toucan
- Here are the most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates out there
- Arecibo radio telescope, damaged beyond repair, seen from space
- Spacecraft with precious asteroid cargo is almost home after 3 billion-mile trek
- The world's newest monkey species was found in a lab, not on an expedition
- Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision
November 24th
- 2 of Darwin's famous notebooks, including iconic 'Tree of Life' sketch, are missing
- Who set up this mysterious metal monolith in Utah desert? (It's not aliens.)
- SARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia
- Americans celebrated Thanksgiving during a pandemic before. Here's what happened.
- Physicists could do the 'impossible': Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar
- Is belief in God a delusion?
- Faint 'super-planet' discovered by radio telescope for the 1st time
- Hubble captures a black hole's 'shadow beams,' yawning across space
- Stratolaunch starts building Talon hypersonic plane for Mach 6 flights
- Crested rats can kill with their poisonous fur
- China launches historic Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976
November 23rd
- Man's 'heart attack' was really side effect from swallowed battery
- Oxford COVID-19 vaccine up to 90% effective (with the right dose)
- Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic 'trance flower'
- Rebuilding Notre Dame will be incredibly hard
- Newfound corpses at Pompeii were a master and servant who died together
- Adorable monkeys caught commiting grisly act of cannibalism
- Whodunit solved when 'sword' is found embedded in thresher shark
- Wide-eyed prehistoric shark hid its sharpest teeth in nightmare jaws
- 'Superbolts' are real, and they flash up to 1,000 times brighter than regular lightning
November 22nd
- Rural hospitals are under siege from COVID-19. Here's what doctors are facing, in their own words.
- JFK conspiracy theory is debunked in Mexico 57 years after Kennedy assassination
- Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
- Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?
November 21st
- Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video)
- Ultrasound captures worms squirming in a man's stomach
- Why do some animals sleep so much?
November 20th
- Happy birthday to Benoit Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractals
- Physicists built an 'anti-laser' to charge your phone from across a room
- Could COVID-19 immunity last decades? Here’s the science.
- Astronomers detect millions of signals from an intelligent civilization: Us
- College-age kids are drinking less alcohol — but smoking more marijuana
- Losing Arecibo Observatory would create a hole that can't be filled, scientists say
- STEVE is smearing green 'streaks' across the sky, and nobody knows why
- Hidden world of bacteria and fungi discovered on Leonardo da Vinci's drawings
November 19th
- Speed of COVID vaccine testing did not compromise safety, Fauci says
- CDC urges Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving
- Antarctica's blue whales return to South Georgia a century after they were nearly wiped out
- Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lost
- Scientists are recreating the smell of 16th-century Europe
- Prohibition-era gangster may have buried $150 million in treasure
- Scientists discover exotic new mineral forged in the furnace of a Russian volcano
- No, soaring COVID-19 cases are not due to more testing
- The dazzling Blue Ring Nebula puzzled scientists for 16 years — and now they finally understand why
- Mysteries of COVID smell loss finally yield some answers
- Ancient Egyptian temple reveals previously unknown star constellations
November 18th
- Woman's stomach pain turns out to be rare case of 'wandering spleen'
- FDA authorizes 1st fully at-home COVID-19 test
- Children can be stealth superspreaders of malaria to mosquitoes
- Pfizer vaccine is 95% effective, company to seek FDA approval within days
- Medieval soldier found with sword and knives at the bottom of a Lithuanian lake
- 'Baby Yoda' revealed as astronauts' zero-g indicator on SpaceX Crew-1 mission
- What are monoclonal antibodies? (And why do we need them?)
- Ancient fragment of the Pacific Ocean found buried 400 miles below China
- How early was the coronavirus really circulating in Italy?
November 17th
- Cretaceous cold case of 'dueling' T. rex and Triceratops may finally be solved
- Physicists discover the 'Kings and Queens of Quantumness'
- Newfound 'Kraken merger' may have been the biggest collision in Milky Way's history
- Mysterious 'dark river' may flow hundreds of miles beneath Greenland
- Mummy count continues to grow at ancient Egypt burial site
- Why women make way less than men do in more religious places
November 16th
- Huge eruption of Italian volcano sends ash hundreds of feet into the air
- Olympic officials 'very confident' that next year's games in Tokyo will have spectators
- This week on Live Science forums: AMA on friendliness and evolution
- Hurricane Iota will slam into Nicaragua as a 'catastrophic' Category 5
- Deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia can spread between people
- Moderna coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective, early results suggest
- Dog ticks prefer humans as hosts when temperatures rise
- World's ugliest bats sing through 'face masks' made of skin to woo the ladies
- Triassic period ended with 'lost' mass extinction and a million-year rain storm, study claims
- SpaceX Crew Dragon launches 4 astronauts to space station in historic flight
November 15th
- COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time
- Supernova explosions may have helped shape Earth's climate history
- This interactive tool figures out your COVID-19 risk of attending an event
- Why did trilobites go extinct?
November 14th
- Mars: Mounting evidence for subglacial lakes, but could they really host life?
- Why is November the 11th month, not the 9th month?
November 13th
- Watch SpaceX launch 4 astronauts to the ISS Saturday
- SpaceX's Elon Musk says he's tested positive for COVID-19 on eve of NASA astronaut launch
- 1st instance of microevolution in early human relative discovered
- Thanksgiving with family and friends is a bad idea, health experts warn
- Mushroom hunter unearths gorgeous Bronze Age sword
- NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 days
- 200 'murder hornet' queens found inside first US nest of this invasive insect
- 200 more copies of Newton's 'Principia' masterpiece found in Europe by scholar sleuths
- Horned figures from cult of a Mesopotamian moon god discovered in biblical-era fort
November 12th
- Birth of magnetar seen for the first time
- 31,000-year-old burial holds world's oldest known identical twins
- Botched restoration leaves Spanish statue looking like a confused potato head
- Can the EmDrive actually work for space travel?
- Earth is fighting a laser duel with the exploding Carina Nebula
- Teen contracts 'hot tub lung' from indoor swimming pool
November 11th
- Wearing a cloth face mask protects you and others from getting COVID-19, CDC says
- Rare squid with 'elbow' tentacles baffles scientists in spooky new footage
- Ancient gold stash found in jug in Jerusalem
- Coronavirus vaccine could be ready for all Americans by April, Fauci says
- Asteroid Apophis is speeding up as scientists recalculate odds of 2068 impact
- Mysterious 'gene within a gene' found in the coronavirus
- Primeval Greenland lake found buried beneath a mile-thick slab of ice
- Restaurants and gyms drove COVID-19 transmission this spring
- Viking ship in Norway buried near cult temple, feast hall and funeral mounds
November 10th
- Mama and baby bear shot to death aboard Russian nuclear submarine
- Alien-like photo shows eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midair
- 2020 Atlantic hurricane season shatters record
- Evictions would raise COVID-19 risk for everyone
- Denmark halts plan to cull 17 million mink over coronavirus infections
- SpaceX set to launch first fully-crewed ISS mission Saturday
- Jim Bridenstine will step aside as NASA chief when President-elect Biden takes over: report
- Skin-eating fungus from Europe could invade US, decimate salamanders
- The fossil of a duckbill dinosaur has been found on the 'wrong' continent
- 'Alien-hunting' Arecibo Observatory suffers more damage as second cable fails
- Archaeologists finally peer inside Egyptian mummies first found in 1615
- 'Diseases of despair' on the rise across the US
November 9th
- US tops 10 million coronavirus cases
- Here's the Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19
- Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90% effective, early data suggests
- This bacterium survived on the outside of the Space Station for an entire year
- Weird 'gravitational molecules' could orbit black holes like electrons swirling around atoms
- What if Earth shared its orbit with another planet?
November 8th
- Planned satellite constellation poses a collision threat, NASA says: Reports
- How long do most species last before going extinct?
November 7th
- What was the largest empire in the world?
November 6th
- Rare wolf spider presumed extinct turns up on British military base
- Massive great white shark Unama'ki spotted south of Miami
- Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID-19 patients as treatments improve
- This bizarre planet could have supersonic winds in an atmosphere of vaporized rock
- An asteroid trailing after Mars could actually be the stolen twin of our moon
- The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with an Antarctic penguin refuge
November 5th
- Earwax may reveal how stressed you are
- Woman sheds coronavirus for 70 days without symptoms
- Denmark to cull all farmed mink to stop coronavirus outbreaks
- Rare ancient burial contains child whose arms and legs were removed
- NASA finally makes contact with Voyager 2 after longest radio silence in 30 years
- 500 million-year-old creature with mashup of bizarre features could be arthropod 'missing link'
- Watch a 'Godzilla' wasp dominate Mothra in this eerie lab video
- Jousting yard where Henry VIII nearly died just discovered 5 feet under
November 4th
- Ancient burial of fierce female hunter (and her weapons) discovered in Peru
- US officially becomes only nation to leave the Paris Climate Agreement
- Who invented the Electoral College?
- Possible cause of COVID-19 blood clots found
- Mysterious 'fast radio burst' traced to a known object in the Milky Way for the first time ever
- Mark Kelly becomes 4th astronaut elected to Congress
- What does the 2020 presidential election mean for space exploration?
- A history of contested presidential elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al Gore
- Long-hidden 'selfie' of a medieval mason found in historic Spanish cathedral
November 3rd
- AI can detect COVID-19 from the sound of your cough
- 2,000-year-old seal depicting Greek god Apollo found in Jerusalem
- Mantis shrimp punch down, pick on smaller rivals to steal their homes
- What happens if a president loses an election but won't leave the White House?
- 'Lost' chameleon rediscovered after a century in hiding. And it's spectacular.
- Mass grave of Tulsa race massacre victims possibly unearthed in Oklahoma cemetery
- The International Space Station can't last forever. Here's how it will eventually die by fire.
- Cosmic bubbles may have forged dark matter, new theory suggests
November 2nd
- Does vitamin D protect against COVID-19?
- Drones are flying straight into volcanoes, for life-saving science
- Why is red for Republicans and blue for Democrats?
- Why has our normal body temperature been dropping?
- COVID-19 infects the mouth. Could that explain patients' taste loss?
- Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under UV light
- Were these nails used to crucify Jesus? New evidence revives controversial idea.
November 1st
- Are you genetically more similar to your mom or your dad?
- 7 ways the election will shape the future of science, health and the environment