These are the most-read Science News stories of 2019
Science News drew more than 15 million visitors to our website this year. Here’s a rundown of the most-read news stories of 2019 that didn’t make our Top 10 list, as well as the most popular longer reads. Top news stories 1. A chip made with carbon nanotubes, not silicon, marks a computing milestoneResearchers built a new kind of computer chip with thousands of carbon nanotube transistors. Though the prototype can’t yet compete with silicon chips, carbon nanotube computing technology could lead to faster electronics (SN: 9/28/19, p. 7). 2. People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggestPeople’s brain waves showed a distinct pattern when exposed to an Earth-strength magnetic field pointing in a specific direction in the lab. That finding hints that humans may have magnetoreception, similar to birds and certain other organisms . 3. In a first, scientists took the temperature of a sonic black holeThe temperature of a lab-made...