2020 In Science
A number of significant science, scientific events occurred in 2020. Events January February March April May June July August September October * 1 October ** Researchers report the discovery of a novel overlapping gene (OLG) (a gene partially overlapping with a sequence of another gene), named ''ORF3d'', in the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2 genome, that may be a factor in the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. They found the gene has been identified before, but only in a variant of coronavirus that infects pangolins. **Astronomers announce spectroscopic confirmation of a web-like Large-scale cosmic structure, structure containing galaxies and Dark matter halo, dark matter around, and likely fueling, a quasar at an age of the Universe of 0.9 bn years, which contributes to an explanation of how such supermassive black holes could have grown rapidly so early. * 2 October – A rippling graphene-based Brownian ratchet-relat ...
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