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The article looks at some of the issues the world will face in 2021 while the coronavirus pandemic continues. It cites the challenge of ensuring that poorer countries have access to the COVID-19 vaccine as more than half of the total available vaccines have already been obtained by high-income countries. Restrictions and measures vary per country based on the success or failure of how they contained the virus. Another issue the duration of immunity provided by the vaccine.

The article details an expedition for alien creatures in the Frasassi Caves in Genga, Italy, led by Pennsylvania State University astrobiologist Jennifer Macalady. Topics discussed include the diversity of life on Earth, the importance of oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions to life, and the significance of discovering a biology radically different from all other life on Earth.

The article offers information on whale shark, including its weight, declining population and habitat.

The article discusses health technology firms marketing products and services to women, known as femtech firms, in relation to privacy concerns. Topics include period-tracking applications (apps), the benefits of apps for researchers finding data, and the lack of transparency about the use of personal data in marketing.

The article discusses smart phones equipped with artificially intelligent cameras that use computational photography to edit photographs in real time.

The article reports on the use of mobile apps to pay for goods and services in China. It mentions the use of WeChat and Alipay, conservative banking practices that allowed the apps to succeed, and plans to incorporate them into the state's social credit program.

The article focuses on a study led by Jillian Huntley at Griffith University in Australia which investigated paintings at the Maros-Pangkep karst cave in Indonesia and how they are degrading due to climate change.

The article describes an activity in Australia's waterways in which volunteers from various groups went searching for DNA traces of platypus. Groups involved in the search included the Moorabool Catchment Landcare Group, EnviroDNA, and Odonata. According to ecologist Josh Griffiths, platypus and fish are shedding DNA into the water in the form of skin cells, hair cells or scales. Platypus has been classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a near-threatened species.

The article discusses research done by Yudi Lozano at the Free University of Berlin and her team on the effect of microplastic fibres on soil-water interactions, published in the "Journal of Applied Ecology."

The article deals with the war waged by governments against big technology companies in 2020 including the lawsuit filed by U.S. regulators against Facebook for its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and the decision of the British government to ban Chinese telecommunication firm Huawei.

The article deals with the Y2K bug which reemerged in 2020 and will again appear in 2038 and 2486.

The article deals with a Finnish study of 2,000 unemployed people that was conducted in 2017 and 2018 but was published in May 2020 which discovered that universal basic income enhanced recipients' financial well-being, mental health, and cognitive functioning.

The article discusses research done by Heather Mattila at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and her team on the tendency of Asian honeybees (Apis cerana) in northern Vietnam to collect animal faeces and put them on their hive entrances as a defence against mass attacks by giant hornets, published in "PLoS One."

The article reveals that most sea turtles, whales and fish may have plastic in their bodies, according to research led by Marga Rivas at the University of Almeria.

The article reports on the ban on sharing news content announced by Facebook in response to the proposed rules by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that would enable Australian news organizations to ask for remuneration from companies for news shared on their platforms. Topics include impact of covid-19 on advertising revenue of the global news industry, statement by the ACCC's Rod Sims on Facebook's threat of a news ban, and response of Google to the proposed rules.

The article discusses a study by Hunter McDaniel and his colleagues at materials manufacturing firm UbiQD which developed solar panels from two layers of glass glued together with a polymer that contains nanoparticles known as quantum dots.

The article reports on a surge of coronavirus cases in Great Britain, as of September 2020. Topics discussed include the number of cases reported, possible reason for the rise in cases, and remarks from British health secretary Matt Hancock. Also mentioned are the priority given by the government on testing capacity in high-risk areas and advice from health officials for people with symptoms.

The article reports on the use by major entertainment companies, including 20th Century Fox,of artificial intelligence to digitally insert advertisements and products into movies. The technology developed by British firm Mirriad is being used by the companies to insert posters on buildings, walls and buses in already-filmed scenes and even to add three-dimensional (3D) objects. The technology is said to have the potential to make advertising more targeted and ubiquitous than ever before.

The article reports on the simulation started by Richard Bower at Durham University in Great Britain in November 2019 which is digitally recreating the lives of stars, black holes and galaxies. The physics of all the normal matter such as the atoms and molecules that make up humans and Earth are included in the simulation. One of the objectives of the simulation is to try to understand rare objects in the universe.

The article reports that the second batch of Starlink satellites of SpaceX of Elon Musk interfered with astronomical observations at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in northern Chile on November 18, 2019.

The article discusses research led by Brandon Fornwalt at healthcare provider Geisinger that examined the use of artificial intelligence to examine electrocardiography results and predict a person's chance of dying within a year.

The article focuses on DNANudge, a startup company that offers DNA-based recommendations to help people make better food shopping choices. Topics discussed include personalised diets based on genetic testing, the company's administration of DNA testing at its store in London, England, and the question of whether DNA-based diets convey any significant benefits.

The article reports that Facebook has announced plans to reduce misinformation and foreign interference ahead of the Great Britain general election. It mentions that Facebook's measures include removing fake accounts and reducing the reach of articles that have been debunked by independent third-party fact-checkers.

The article focuses on the artificial intelligence (AI) that has the ability to perceive the world from the point of view of another individual created by Raul Vicente and colleagues at the University of Tarfu in Estonia

The article discusses top poker players of the World who have been beaten by an artificial intelligence (AI)machine names Pluribus and mentions views of professional poker player Jason Les on the same.

The article reports on research by Rowan Zellers at the University of Washington in training artificial intelligence to write and detect fake news.

The article reports on the use of replica heads made by three-dimensional printing for practice in treating brain cancer with radiotherapy.

The article reports on the size of the carbon footprint created by the energy consumption of computers used in artificial intelligence.

The article reports that the $7 million in awards for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPrize, was given to teams using uncrewed deep-sea vessels to map the ocean floor as well as trace chemical signals, with the goal being the creation of a comprehensive atlas by the year 2030. the first prize winner was the U.S. group GEBCO-NF Alumni and their vessel Sea-Kit who were awarded $4 million.

The author condemns the legislation passed by the legislature in Singapore known as the "Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill," which requires individuals, social media platforms, to remove or issue corrections with content determined to be false. She points out that Singapore is already facing international condemnation related to journalistic freedoms, lack of free speech, and censorship.

The article discusses the use of DNA for data storage in relation to research led by researcher Robert Grass on the use of a silica coating on bound DNA strands.

The article discusses the views of researchers about Starlink satellites produced by the firm SpaceX and impact of their brightness on astronomy research.

The article reports on the development of a mobile app which can diagnose ear infections.

The article reports on the possible use of carbon dioxide into animal feed through the use of bacteria that consume the gas.

The article discusses the use of four-dimensional (4D) knitting techniques to develop toys, robotics and cost-effective wearables, referencing research co-authored by scientist Lea Albaugh.

The article discusses the use of nanosatellites designed by the technology firm Hiber to monitor and prevent illegal fishing, including the Indonesian government's use of Hiber satellite to prevent illegal fishing.

The article provides information on a scam based on pay-per-click online advertising in which third-party programs are changing hyperlinks on websites to profit and spread malware.

The article reports that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered the origin of a meteorite that appeared over Turkey in 2015, stating that it came from a crater on the asteroid Vesta.

The article focuses on the integer math problem proposed by mathematician Louis Mordell on if any integer or whole number could be represented as the sum of three cubes with mathematician Andrew Booker having used a computer to solve a sum for the number 33, which had been the previously lowest unsolved number.

The article focuses on the discovery of an explosion caused by a meteor over the Bering Sea on December 18, 2018. It states the meteor explosion had an energy of 173 kilotons of the explosive TNT and was nearly 10 times more powerful than the U.S. atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. It mentions the blast was detected across the world by infrasound stations used to detect nuclear explosions. It comments that the blast was nearly as powerful as the one over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.

The article focuses on research in the impact of magnetic fields on human brain activity. It states that electroencephalography was used in recording participant alpha wave brain activity while they sat in dark rooms while magnetic fields were generated using electromagnetic coils (EMC). It mentions the EMC mimicked changes in the magnetic fields people are subjected to while moving around in the world. It comments the study paralleled animal magnetoreception studies.

The article reports that researchers are developing algorithms for a version of the game-playing artificial intelligence DeepMind that could solve a million piece jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the final picture would look like. It mentions the use of graph coloring math problems, which is related to the traveling salesman problem, in solving the puzzles. It states the algorithm could be used in time to develop more efficient computer chips or traffic routing control systems through cities.

The article discusses the publication's March 4, 1989 article discussing the creation of the Internet and a computer worm deposited into the network by a graduate student from Cornell University due to the lack of cyber security and knowledge regarding Trojans, worms and computer viruses.

The article discusses the development of a colour-changing purple goblet through using three dimensional (3D) printing and gold nanoparticles, referencing an article coauthored by scientist Vittorio Saggiomo in the "Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology."

The article discusses the efficacy of drone aircraft equipped with lidar scanning technology in identifying the locations of buried bodies, and it mentions how the Australian police would like to use drone technology to search for murder victims in remote locations. Research by scientist Soren Blau and her colleagues at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine is examined, along with simulated crime scenes featuring human cadavers.

The article discusses how developers Youngjoo Jo and Jongyoul Park created a generative adversarial network face-editing computer program which allows two competing artificial intelligence (AI) generators and discriminators to turn sketches into realistic edits, and it mentions smiles.

The article discusses the structure and shape of the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua, including its density and composition of fractals, referencing an article coauthored by scientist Amaya Moro-Martin, located online at arxiv.org/abs/1902.04100.