User:Prototyperspective/Year in science/List of nonincluded items for 2020
Table of items that were not added to 2020 in science but, in most cases, were nearly included or not that easy to exclude.
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Paleontology |
Extraterrestrial environment |
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Most of them are significant, a fraction potentially should have been included, they may be interesting to some readers (e.g. for machine learning), and the rationales for non-inclusion provided for a fraction of items can be useful for understanding and further developing / articulating the inclusion-criteria.
The page may need further formatting, I don't think many will read it – partly it's just an organized resource for myself (possibly including for WP-editing) and for the sake of (approximating) completeness for articles to live up to their title of being about / describing one "year in science" each.
Some editors may also find this useful for finding tasks of things to do as a fraction of these items may be relevant to other articles; I don't think I'll go through them again to add them to any (other/highly-specific) articles. Probably most of the studies are likely relevant to at least article, especially if there is a wikilink in the last column.
However, not all of them (maybe not even most), many items are likely missing here (few of these even the year in science article), some have already been integrated into Wikipedia, and some may only or also be relevant to a timeline of a scientific field (see the timelines in the infobox linked on the right).
Having items in a table allows easily filtering and sorting items by field and other metadata, I proposed this for the year in science articles here, but currently don't even support it myself because of various problems with Wikipedia tables – bullet-points probably look better and could get supplemented with interactive tags (e.g. for scientific fields). Nevertheless, this also is a demonstration of an alternative layout for these articles.
Selection (initial discovery and in/exclusion decisions) could be the most laborious / difficult tasks of my monthly science summary related routine (monthly summary infographics and additions to the Wikipedia "Year in science" article and relevant WP edits). This table could be considered as a list of items that nearly but didn't make it through my / the proposed inclusion-filters.
You can sort the tables and the page is searchable by keywords (ctrl+F). For example, you can sort by scientific field or search for a scientific topic term.
Not included
editThe list for 2020 is exceptionally short, there are more non-included items for 2021 – reasons for that probably include that I did not have an as good addition routine/methods, did not yet have good enough criteria, and haven't started to store the non-included items right from the start.
There are problems with tables in Wikipedia, if you can improve the max-widths and responsiveness at some point, please do.
Field | Month | Report | Study | Non-inclusion rationale/info | Comment |
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BIO / HEALTH | JAN | Yoshida, Kenichi; Gowers, Kate H. C.; Lee-Six, Henry; Chandrasekharan, Deepak P.; Coorens, Tim; Maughan, Elizabeth F.; Beal, Kathryn; Menzies, Andrew; Millar, Fraser R.; Anderson, Elizabeth; Clarke, Sarah E.; Pennycuick, Adam; Thakrar, Ricky M.; Butler, Colin R.; Kakiuchi, Nobuyuki (February 2020). "Tobacco smoking and somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelium". Nature. 578 (7794): 266–272. Bibcode:2020Natur.578..266Y. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1961-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 7021511. PMID 31996850. | |||
SPACEFLIGHT | DEC | Myers, Steven Lee; Chang, Kenneth (December 1, 2020). "China Lands Chang'e-5 Spacecraft on Moon to Gather Lunar Rocks and Soil" – via NYTimes.com. | |||
ASTRO | DEC | University, Hokkaido. "Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites". phys.org. | |||
ASTRO | DEC | "An updated way to calculate the likelihood of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations". phys.org."Computer Model Predicts When and Where Extraterrestrial Life Is Most Likely to Emerge in Our Galaxy (Spoiler: It's Not Here)". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-08. | Cai, Xiang; Jiang, Jonathan H.; Fahy, Kristen A.; Yung, Yuk L. (March 2021). "A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy". Galaxies. 9 (1): 5. arXiv:2012.07902. Bibcode:2021Galax...9....5C. doi:10.3390/galaxies9010005. ISSN 2075-4434. | A preprint elaborates current data on when and where life is most likely to exist in the Milky Way and it identifies the most important factor affecting its prevalence | |
ASTROBIO | DEC | Institute, The Scripps Research. "Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-02-08. | Jiménez, Eddy I.; Gibard, Clémentine; Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan (May 3, 2021). "Prebiotic Phosphorylation and Concomitant Oligomerization of Deoxynucleosides to form DNA". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60 (19): 10775–10783. doi:10.1002/anie.202015910. PMID 33325148. | too low alt-metrics, wait for systematic investigation / conclusionish studies instead of "further evidence" | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abiogenesis&diff=prev&oldid=996805225#RNA-DNA_world |
DEC | Center, University of Chicago Medical. "A simple rule drives the evolution of useless complexity". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-02-08. | ? | |||
ENVIRO | DEC | Fuller-Wright, Liz; University, Princeton. "What caused the ice ages? Tiny ocean fossils offer key evidence". phys.org. | |||
DEC | Schamiloglu, Edl; Conversation, The. "Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves – here's how the weapons work". phys.org.National Academies of Sciences, Engineering (December 5, 2020). Relman, David A.; Pavlin, Julie (eds.). An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies. doi:10.17226/25889. ISBN 978-0-309-68137-7. PMID 33411434 – via nap.nationalacademies.org. Crawford, Jamie (December 5, 2020). "'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says". CNN. "Former CIA officer details "Havana Syndrome" he says he suffered in Moscow: "An act of war"". www.cbsnews.com. 14 June 2021. | ? | Havana_syndrome#Theories_regarding_cause | ||
ASTROBIO | DEC | Colyer, Reagan; University, Montana State. "Researchers find hydrogen-supported life beneath glaciers". phys.org. | |||
BIOTECH | DEC | Berkeley, University of California-. "Using CRISPR, new technique makes it easy to map genetic networks". phys.org. | |||
MEDICINE-SC2 | DEC | "Researchers find elevated biomarker for blood vessel damage in children with SARS-CoV-2". News-Medical.net. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2023-02-08. | Rhea, Elizabeth M.; Logsdon, Aric F.; Hansen, Kim M.; Williams, Lindsey M.; Reed, May J.; Baumann, Kristen K.; Holden, Sarah J.; Raber, Jacob; Banks, William A.; Erickson, Michelle A. (March 8, 2021). "The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier in mice". Nature Neuroscience. 24 (3): 368–378. doi:10.1038/s41593-020-00771-8. PMC 8793077. PMID 33328624. | ? | |
ASTRO | DEC | "Deepening Astronomical Mystery: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole". SciTechDaily. January 9, 2021. "On the hunt for a missing giant black hole". phys.org. | no conclusion yet | ||
QUANTUM | SEPT | "Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem". phys.org. "Quantencomputing fürs echte Leben | pro-physik.de". www.pro-physik.de. | Vikstål, Pontus; Grönkvist, Mattias; Svensson, Marika; Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Göran; Ferrini, Giulia (September 3, 2020). "Applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to the Tail-Assignment Problem". Physical Review Applied. 14 (3): 034009. arXiv:1912.10499. Bibcode:2020PhRvP..14c4009V. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034009 – via APS. | ||
ASTRO | DEC | "Longest intergalactic gas filament discovered". phys.org. | only confirmation & recording/ measurement | ||
QUANTUM | DEC | "Researchers create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible". phys.org. | |||
BIO | DEC | Yates, Diana; Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at. "Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees". phys.org. | e.g. how new? | ||
QUANTUM | DEC | "Researchers achieve sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation". phys.org. | Valivarthi, Raju; Davis, Samantha I.; Peña, Cristián; Xie, Si; Lauk, Nikolai; Narváez, Lautaro; Allmaras, Jason P.; Beyer, Andrew D.; Gim, Yewon; Hussein, Meraj; Iskander, George; Kim, Hyunseong Linus; Korzh, Boris; Mueller, Andrew; Rominsky, Mandy; Shaw, Matthew; Tang, Dawn; Wollman, Emma E.; Simon, Christoph; Spentzouris, Panagiotis; Oblak, Daniel; Sinclair, Neil; Spiropulu, Maria (December 4, 2020). "Teleportation Systems Toward a Quantum Internet". PRX Quantum. 1 (2): 020317. arXiv:2007.11157. Bibcode:2020PRXQ....1b0317V. doi:10.1103/PRXQuantum.1.020317 – via APS. | ||
ENERGY | DEC | "Another plasma record for Korea's fusion researchers - Nuclear Engineering International". www.neimagazine.com. | "South Korea’s National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) on 24 November announced that the K-STAR fusion reactor had managed to operate the plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds – the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor to have maintained plasma for more than 10 seconds at that temperature" | ||
LONGEVITY | DEC | Ulgherait, Matt; Chen, Anna; McAllister, Sophie F.; Kim, Han X.; Delventhal, Rebecca; Wayne, Charlotte R.; Garcia, Christian J.; Recinos, Yocelyn; Oliva, Miles; Canman, Julie C.; Picard, Martin; Owusu-Ansah, Edward; Shirasu-Hiza, Mimi (April 21, 2020). "Circadian regulation of mitochondrial uncoupling and lifespan". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 1927. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.1927U. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15617-x. PMID 32317636 – via www.nature.com. | needs news articles & probably wait for human-related findings |
Not-yet checked or missed
editThese items could go into the above section as non/nearly-included items or not or they should have been added (and theoretically still could be added of course).
From the annual top altmetrics pages
edit- Haug, Nina; Geyrhofer, Lukas; Londei, Alessandro; Dervic, Elma; Desvars-Larrive, Amélie; Loreto, Vittorio; Pinior, Beate; Thurner, Stefan; Klimek, Peter (December 8, 2020). "Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions". Nature Human Behaviour. 4 (12): 1303–1312. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01009-0. PMID 33199859 – via www.nature.com.
- Rivera, Jesus; Hosseini, Maryam Sadat; Restrepo, David; Murata, Satoshi; Vasile, Drago; Parkinson, Dilworth Y.; Barnard, Harold S.; Arakaki, Atsushi; Zavattieri, Pablo; Kisailus, David (October 8, 2020). "Toughening mechanisms of the elytra of the diabolical ironclad beetle". Nature. 586 (7830): 543–548. Bibcode:2020Natur.586..543R. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2813-8. PMID 33087910 – via www.nature.com.
- Bergström, Anders; Frantz, Laurent; et al. (October 30, 2020). "Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs". Science. 370 (6516): 557–564. doi:10.1126/science.aba9572. PMC 7116352. PMID 33122379.
- Scholtz, Jakub; Unwin, James (July 29, 2020). "What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?". Physical Review Letters. 125 (5): 051103. arXiv:1909.11090. Bibcode:2020PhRvL.125e1103S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051103. PMID 32794880 – via APS.
- Botvinik-Nezer, Rotem; Holzmeister, Felix; et al. (June 8, 2020). "Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams". Nature. 582 (7810): 84–88. Bibcode:2020Natur.582...84B. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9. PMC 7771346. PMID 32483374.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Sirakov, Nikolay; et al. (May 8, 2020). "Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria". Nature. 581 (7808): 299–302. Bibcode:2020Natur.581..299H. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2259-z. PMID 32433609 – via www.nature.com.
- "Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math | PNAS".
- Shahmohammadi, Sadegh; Steinmann, Zoran J. N.; Tambjerg, Lau; van Loon, Patricia; King, J. M. Henry; Huijbregts, Mark A. J. (March 17, 2020). "Comparative Greenhouse Gas Footprinting of Online versus Traditional Shopping for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods: A Stochastic Approach". Environmental Science & Technology. 54 (6): 3499–3509. Bibcode:2020EnST...54.3499S. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b06252. PMC 7081612. PMID 32100529.
- Hickel, Jason (October 3, 2021). "What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification". Globalizations. 18 (7): 1105–1111. Bibcode:2021Glob...18.1105H. doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
- Park, Seung-min; Won, Daeyoun D.; Lee, Brian J.; Escobedo, Diego; Esteva, Andre; Aalipour, Amin; Ge, T. Jessie; Kim, Jung Ha; Suh, Susie; Choi, Elliot H.; Lozano, Alexander X.; Yao, Chengyang; Bodapati, Sunil; Achterberg, Friso B.; Kim, Jeesu; Park, Hwan; Choi, Youngjae; Kim, Woo Jin; Yu, Jung Ho; Bhatt, Alexander M.; Lee, Jong Kyun; Spitler, Ryan; Wang, Shan X.; Gambhir, Sanjiv S. (June 8, 2020). "A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta". Nature Biomedical Engineering. 4 (6): 624–635. doi:10.1038/s41551-020-0534-9. PMC 7377213. PMID 32251391.