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The most popular science stories of 2020 26 Dec 2020

The most popular science stories of 2020

The biggest science news this year, by far, was anything to do with the novel coronavirus and the ongoing pandemic. Stories about COVID-19 received exponentially more views

57,000 Year-Old Wolf Pup Mummy Uncovered in Canadian Permafrost 22 Dec 2020

57,000 Year-Old Wolf Pup Mummy Uncovered in Canadian Permafrost

While water blasting at a wall of frozen mud in Yukon, Canada, a gold miner made an extraordinary discovery: a perfectly preserved wolf pup that had been locked in permafrost.

Arctic Transforming, less frozen Place 09 Dec 2020

Arctic Transforming, less frozen Place

The Arctic’s rapid transformation into a less frozen, hotter, and biologically altered place has been further exacerbated by a year of wildfires, soaring temperatures, and loss of ice.

HWPL Members Practicing Love and Freedom for the End of COVID-19 06 Dec 2020

HWPL Members Practicing Love and Freedom for the End of COVID-19

4,000 HWPL Members Participated in the Third Plasma Drive for the Development of COVID-19 Treatment An Online Prayer Meeting for Religious People Around the World to End COVID-19

Humans are changing fire patterns 24 Nov 2020

Humans are changing fire patterns

fires sweep through the wet tropical rainforests of Queensland, where large and severe fires are almost unheard of. This is just one example of how human activities are changing fire patterns around the world.

German set to play leading role in coronavirus fight 16 Nov 2020

German set to play leading role in coronavirus fight

Innovative backbone of country’s economy well-placed to reap benefits of vaccine breakthrough

Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier 15 Nov 2020

Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica is in serious danger. It's swiftly melting, and a collapse could cause a dramatic increase in sea level rise.

Climate Change and Hurricanes 11 Nov 2020

Climate Change and Hurricanes

Scientists can’t say for sure whether global warming is causing more hurricanes, but they are confident that it’s changing the way storms behave

Scientists Fear Arctic Sea That Didn’t Freeze Heralds Trend 08 Nov 2020

Scientists Fear Arctic Sea That Didn’t Freeze Heralds Trend

A Russian expert told The Moscow Times that sea-ice coverage is shrinking 10% each decade.

Iran to test COVID-19 vaccine on human 01 Nov 2020

Iran to test COVID-19 vaccine on human

Iranian Health Ministry spokeswoman, Sima Sadat Lari highlighted the good progress that Iran has made in developing the coronavirus vaccine, which has been already tested on monkeys.