Click Here to Read: Revisiting Wuhan a year after the coronavirus hit the city: More than 3,000 people died of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. But there hasn’t been a case there since last spring By Rebecca Kanthor on the PRI website on January 21, 2021.
A medical staff in Wuhan railway station during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Image: China News Service Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2020: From the rapid development of vaccines for Covid-19 to the stunning collection of an asteroid sample, these were the biggest science moments of the year By Joe Spring , Rachael Lallensack on the Smithsonian website on December 31, 2021.
Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando). ImAge: U.S. Secretary of Defense. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Oldest Known Cave Painting of Animals Discovered by Adam Brumm & Adhi Aktavania and Basran Burhan, Maxine Aubert on The Real Clear Science website.
Babirusa is a type of wild pig that lives in tropical rainforests in Sulawesi, fighting is one of their ways to attract the attention of females Image: Meldy Tamenge Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Click Here to Read: The Solar System may have a 9th Planet by Passant Rabie on the Inverso website on December 25, 2020, Artist’s impression of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. The sky view and appearance are based on the conjectures of its co-proposer, Mike Brown.
Image: nagualdesign; Tom Ruen, background taken from File:ESO – Milky Way.jpg Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: The most distant galaxy is upending our model of the universe’s history: A new study confirms GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant galaxy humans have ever sighted By Nicole Karlis on the Salon website on December 27, 2020.
Distant galaxy GN-z11 in GOODS-N image by HST.jpg Image: NASA ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
