Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—Evolution in action at Chernobyl, a shortcut for neural networks and benefits of guar gum
It was an interesting week for Earth science and evolutionary history as a pair of researchers with Uppsala University, Pablo Burraco and Germán Orizaola, found that studying Eastern tree frogs in the areas around Chernobyl ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Coastal cities sinking, when to charge electric cars, prepping for deflecting asteroids
It was a busy week for the study of human impacts on the planet as a team of researchers at Tel Aviv University found evidence of human activity 3,000 years ago that destroyed local vegetation and irreparably damaged the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Basal thaw, robots that draw their own circuits, using nasal spray to combat COVID-19
It was an interesting week for Earth science and its history as a team at Stanford University explored whether we are missing a crucial component of sea-level rise. They suggest more attention needs to be given to basal thaw, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Fossil evidence of early human hybridization, a cyborg cockroach, a new math formula
It was a good week for early human history studies as a team of archaeologists at the University of Oxford discovered monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across an Arabian desert in the form of hunting structures known ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Arctic lakes drying up, teaching an AI system to play soccer, how fentanyl affects the brain
It was a busy week in Earth and biological sciences as a team of researchers with the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University, both in the Netherlands, found that more than 90% of the identifiable trash in the North ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New images of Jupiter, improving soccer playing in robots, news addiction can make you sick
It was a good week for space science as NASA released sharp, new images of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Telescope. The artificially colored images showed details such as fine filigree on the edges of colored bands surrounding ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Destroying 'forever chemicals,' a jumping unicycle robot, metformin as an early COVID treatment
It was a good week for the biological sciences as a small team of researchers from Harvard University, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science and the University of Alberta, found evidence of 60 million years of climate ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Gorillas create new call, an artificial neuron, a synthetic chemical linked to liver cancer
It was a good week for the biological sciences, as a trio of researchers, two with the University of Georgia, the third with Zoo Atlanta, found that gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have created a new call for use in communicating ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Consequences of climate change, supplanting lithium ion in batteries, repairing damaged muscle
It was an eye-opening week for Earth science as an international team of climate researchers warned that the potential to end humanity is "dangerously underexplored." They note that unexpected consequences of climate change ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Overshoot Day, ultrasound stickers see inside the body, viruses may trigger Alzheimer's disease
It was a good week for planetary science as a team at the University of Rochester wondering how Earth avoided a Mars-like fate found that ancient rocks suggest it had to do with the timing of the formation of Earth's inner ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New phase of matter, a replacement for silicon, a better vaccine for omicron subvariants
It was a good week for physics as a team with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. created a strange new phase of matter in a quantum computer that acted like it had two dimensions. And an international ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Remeasuring the gravitational constant, preventing DNS attacks, impact of long COVID on people
It was a good week for physics research as a team at ETH Zurich remeasured the gravitational constant, which was a job long in the making. The work was conducted at the old Furggels fortress using lasers. Also, a team at ...