Major Science News, April 2021 | Wiki-based Science Summary

This update on recent major scientific papers and developments around the globe features news about detecting extraterrestrial technology, deep-sea bionic robots, wormholes, an "ark" of genomes on the Moon, warp drives & more

These are Wikipedia-based brief reviews for last month's additions to humanity's stock of scientific knowledge. The video reviews March 2021.

All items in the video are featured in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in...

Narration by David W. Draffin

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0:00 Intro

0:11 * Technosignatures | 🔔 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

0:52 * Soft robot
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

1:29 Lunar ark
https://news.engineering.arizona.edu/...

2:34 * Wormholes
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

3:31 * Warp drives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

4:18 * Painkiller
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13...

5:08 * Amazon
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

5:40 COVID-19

Lineage P.1 reinfections
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/he...

B.1.1.7-E484K combination
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

B.1.1.7 mortality
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n579

EMA leak
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627

Snapshot-testing
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...





7:27 Short items


Meat
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com...

Endosymbiont
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

1.5 °C
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

Food systems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...

Autotomy
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...

‘Oumuamua
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

CRISPR-Cas9
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/10/e...

Marine conservation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Crop production
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

Odderon
https://gizmodo.com/physicists-discov...

UFO report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...

Brain cells
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0...

Asteroid Apophis
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa...

Trees
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

Cycling
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e...

Pesticides
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

Greenland
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/13/e...

13:42 Outro / Credits | Please don't forget to subscribe





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Music by Scott Buckley

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Items I added to that list (and often Wikipedia in general) are marked with a star (*) above.

Studies not featured in the Wikipedia list are not considered for the summary. 11 items from the Wikipedia list were not included in the video (you can look them up via the article):
regionally subdivided end times of the Acheulean
NASA renames landing site of the Perseverance to "Octavia E. Butler Landing"
discovery of a quasar P172+18 and most distant known source of radio emissions
discovery of new unknown bacteria on the ISS
measurements of the core of Mars show it is significantly smaller than thought
the area producing FRB 180916 is about 1 km
first polarized-based image of a black hole
Tokamak Energy announces first plasma by fusion reactor ST40
first high-bandwidth wireless BCI is demonstrated
3D atomic imaging of an amorphous solid
a report about the leading causes of death in the U.S. for 2020 is published

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