Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—LK-99 not a superconductor, tricking ChatGPT into leaking data, behaviors guided by dopamine
It was an interesting week for physics research as a team at the Austrian Academy of Sciences unveiled a new approach to the study of entanglement that they claim could significantly improve the understanding of entanglement ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Bronze Age megastructure found, Apple MacBook Pro hacked, the brain is not rewireable
It was an interesting week for human behavior and history as a team of climate scientists affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from the U.S., found evidence that human-produced aerosols ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—human evolutionary dead ends, AI forecasts weather in seconds, faces that are more real than real
It was a good week for human behavior research as a team of evolutionary anthropologists led by a group at Cambridge University found evidence that suggests young children may be psychologically wired to flourish with high ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—synthetic chromosome, computerized Othello solved, alcohol and caffeine impact on sleeping
It was a good week for biological research as a team of geneticists in the U.K. completed construction of a synthetic chromosome—their work was part of an international project aimed at building the world's first synthetic ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—starfish are all head, an all-analog photoelectronic chip, antibiotics no longer effective
It was a good week for biology research as a combined team of marine biologists from Stanford University and UC Berkeley discovered that starfish are all head—they found very little evidence of gene signatures associated ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—landscape hidden beneath ice, using AI to predict AI research, fasting is safe for diabetics
It was a good week for natural history research as a team of geologists from the U.K. and the U.S. found a hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers and frozen in time beneath the ice of Antarctica. Also, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Missing law of nature, a solar-power tipping point and powerful signals in brain white matter
It was a good week for evolutionary and historical research, as a multi-institutional, international collaboration showed that Neanderthals inherited at least 6% of their genome from a now-extinct lineage of early modern ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—early cities were violent, using AI to advance science, common herbicide harms adolescent brain
It was an interesting week for human behavior studies, as a team of economists from several institutions in the U.S. found that for most people, hunting for the cheapest price for a plane ticket is a waste of time, mostly ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—new mammal organelle, AI that designs robots, Stonehenge 'Altar Stone' has different origin
It was a good week for biology research, as a team of cell biologists at ETH Zurich identified a new organelle in mammalian cells. Called the exclusome, it is made of DNA rings called plasmids. A team led by a group at USC ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—new quiescent galaxy discovered, training a third robot arm, a drug to mimic exercise
It was a good week for space exploration, as a team of astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University discovered a new galaxy using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The quiescent galaxy has been named JWST-ER1. ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—electric blue tarantula, AI urban planning, link between chemicals and cancer in women
It was a busy week for biology research as a team of biochemists and molecular biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Spain reported that mature human sperm lack intact mitochondrial DNA. They found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—release of NASA UFO report, chatbots are self-aware, new trigger found for Parkinson's
It was a good week for physics and unexplained phenomena, as an international team of physicists found that matter constitutes 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe. The remainder is still under review, ...