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 ...

Week 49 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 48 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 47 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 46 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 45 2023 in Other Sciences
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, ...

Week 44 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 43 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 42 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 41 2023 in Other Sciences
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. ...

Week 40 2023 in Other Sciences
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 ...

Week 39 2023 in Other Sciences
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, ...

Week 38 2023 in Other Sciences