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Science X / Best of Last Week: Gamma ray lasers, an unstable ice shelf, and cancer risk from hair products
It was a good week for physics research as a professor at the University of California-Riverside, Allen Mills, performed calculations that showed spherical bubbles filled with a gas of positronium atoms were stable in liquid ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Evidence of hypothetical particle, climate tipping points, dementia reduced by olive oil in mice
It was another good week for physics as a team working at CERN and led by Attila Krasznahorkay of the Atomki institute reported that the plot thickened for a hypothetical X17 particle—they found another anomaly in a nuclear ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Sugars in meteorites, Tesla's electric pickup truck, and dangerous effects of sleep deprivation
It was a good week for space research as an international team of researchers announced the first detection of sugars in meteorites, giving clues to the origin of life—the finding suggests meteorite bombardment may have ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Objective reality doesn't exist, Wi-Fi can track you in home, and the Keto diet's effect on the flu
It was a good week for physics as a team with members from MIT, Harvard University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and Argonne National Laboratory carried out an experiment with ultrafast laser ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space, Siri's laser weakness, and human disease killed the Neanderthal
It was a good week for space news, as a team at the University of Iowa announced that Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space—in addition to confirming that the craft has moved into the interstellar medium, they also detected ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: New class of black holes, traffic maps for the internet, and 3-D printed skin
It was another good week for space exploration as a group with members from the University of Connecticut, Texas A&M University, the University of Central Florida, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Air Force Research ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Magneto-inertial fusion experiment, artificial leaves, and driving rats
It was a good week for physics, as a team working at Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that their magneto-inertial fusion experiment is nearing completion—they call it an ambitious approach to achieving controlled ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: New stable form of plutonium, highest throughput 3-D printer, benefits of exercise before breakfast
It was another good week for physics as an international team of scientists announced that they had discovered a new stable form of plutonium—the compound had an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state and was solid and ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Unlocking an old physics secret, artificial bee colony optimization, and food packaging findings
It was a good week for physics as a group at IBMsolved a 140-year-old mystery in physics, revealing some previously unknown physical characteristics of semiconductors. Also, a group with members from NIST, the University ...
Science X / Best of Last Week–Less than zero energy, alternative to Bitcoin and men should avoid alcohol prior to conceiving a child
It was a good week for physics, as a team at Goethe University solved a mystery surrounding photon momentum using a new spectrometer they built with previously unattainable resolution. And an international team investigated ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Getting closer to a quantum computer, a million-mile battery and garlic and onions may prevent cancer
It was another good week for physics research as Hooman Davoudiasl, a theoretical physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, proposed that LIGO/Virgo black holes originate from a first-order phase transition—a first-order ...
Science X / Best of Last Week: Earth warming more quickly than thought, a mesh plug-in and gut bacteria's ties to obesity
It was a good week for space news, as a team at the Goddard Institute for Space Science explored whether Venus could once have been habitable. They found evidence suggesting the planet may have been temperate approximately ...