Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—When cosmic rays streamed through the atmosphere, silent flight, end of vaccine boosters possible
It was a good week for space research as a team with members from several institutions across the U.S. studying data from the James Webb Space Telescope pinpointed a possible aurora on a cold brown dwarf caused by methane ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—gravity free technology, recreating the Holodeck, why the moon is lopsided
It was a good week for physics research as a team at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology developed a new material with the potential to unlock gravity-free technology. Their device ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—largest 3D map of universe, obscuring images for privacy, stool transplants help with Parkinson's
Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, multiple teams of researchers have created the largest-ever 3D map of the universe, which is expected to give future researchers the ability to look 11 billion years ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Barkhausen noise detected, LLMs use simple mechanisms, link between exercise and insomnia
It was a good week for physics research, as a combined team from Columbia, Nanjing University, Princeton and the University of Munster found the first experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle in a quantum material—they ...
Recap / Best of last week—unintended harm with organic farming, a future AI 'Borg,' junk proteins may cause aging
It was an eventful week for biology research, as a trio of environmental researchers in the U.S. found that there can be unintended harm associated with organic farming—the major one being increased pesticide use in surrounding ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—giant trees in the UK, removing plastic from water, using gene therapy to treat brain cancer
It was a good week for biological research, as a team of botanists found that giant sequoia trees are thriving in the U.K—the trees were imported to the U.K. starting approximately 160 years ago and now serve as an excellent ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—exception to heat law, adding AI-generated bass to music, sea ice to slow down
It was a good week for physics research as a team led by a group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reported an exception to a 200-year-old scientific law governing heat transfer—they found an example showing that ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—neutering dogs shortens lifespan, AI emotional support app, exercise reduces Parkinson's symptoms
It was a good week for biology research as a multi-institutional team of evolutionary biologists conducted a genetic study that showed a Stone Age strategy that prevented inbreeding—unrelated families living together. Also, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—plant can reduce food insecurity, robot to care for elderly, 'Chinese dragon' fossil identified
It was a good week for biology research as a team of botanists at Pennsylvania State University discovered that a common plant could help reduce food insecurity. Called Carolina azolla, the plant is able to double its biomass ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—new clues about moon's history, AI hardware improvements, COVID death toll reanalyzed
It was a good week for space science as a multi-institutional team of astronomers and astrophysicists found telescopic evidence that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning itself (and warping spacetime) ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—newborn great white shark, Avocado the robot, diets that can alter immune system
It was a good week for the biological sciences as an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, working with a filmmaker from Malibu Artists Inc., observed and reported the first-ever sighting of a ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—syphilis already in the new world, a hypersonic heat shield, smallest knot ever created
It was a good week for the study of human history as a team of anthropologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the National Register of Peruvian Archaeologists, says that early ...