This update on the latest major scientific papers and developments around the globe features studies about ways to detect ETI, the oldest sequenced DNA, climate change mitigation, Mars, life deep below Antarctica, a short geomagnetic reversal & more
These are Wikipedia-based brief reviews for the newest additions to humanity’s stock of scientific knowledge. The video reviews February 2021. Sources below.
All items in the video are featured in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_science
Narration by David W. Draffin
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0:00 Intro
0:11 * NDCs | Don’t forget to subscribe & enable notifications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00097-8
1:19 * Technosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd7f7
2:21 * Planet 9
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05601
3:54 Lifeforms
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.642040/full
4:35 Ancient DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03224-9
5:24 Mars
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55998848
https://www.livescience.com/china-first-mars-mission-tianwen-1-enters-orbit.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
6:17 * Interactive lucid dreams
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00059-2
5:57 * Geomagnetic excursion
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/811
7:55 COVID-19
Sputnik V
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00234-8/fulltext
8:45 Short items
* Distributed quantum computers
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/614
* Deaths due to fossil fuel combustion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935121000487
* Human origins
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03244-5
* Thermoelectric generator
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/7/eabe0586
* Mutation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/eaax2537
Impactor
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2
* Global moratorium on synthetic phenomenology
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S270507852150003X
* Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00699-z
12:53 Outro / Credits | Don’t forget to enable notifications
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Items which I added to the Wikipedia list are marked with a star (*) above.
Studies not featured in the Wikipedia list are not considered for the summary. 13 items in the list were not featured.
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