Click Here to Read: A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space: Researchers tapped by NASA just conducted a first test of a decades-old concept by Daniel Oberhaus on the ars technica website on November 21, 2020.

A concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket. In this image, the crew would be in the forward-most chamber. Solar panels on the sides would collect energy to initiate the process that creates fusion. Image: Pancotti  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: In the Soup by Tim Flannery Tracing the research into the earliest beginnings of life on earth.
December 3, 2020 issue. 

Click Here to Read: Physicists Discover the ‘Kings and Queens of Quantumness’ By Adam Mann on the Real Clear Science website on November 18, 2020.
The wave function of a particle in an infinite 2D well for nx = 4 and ny = 4. Image: Keenan pepper Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: What Is a Particle?: It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now by Natalie Wolchover on the Quantum Magazine website on November 12, 2020.
Quantum particle interference Image: Thierry Dugnolle  Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Incredible Images Reveal a Mysteriously Formed Triple Crater on Mars by Carly Cassella on teh Science Alert website on November 15, 2020.
Noachis Terra Image: U.S. Geological Survey  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is strongly effective, early look at data show By Matthew Herper and Helen Branswell on the STAT website on November 16, 2020.
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