Weekly recaps

It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers revealed the best image yet of a mysterious radio circle in space. Theories about the nature of these objects range from the throats of wormholes ...

It was a good week for space science as a collaborative at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin found evidence of massive bubbles at the center of the Milky Way caused by a supermassive black hole. Also, ...

It was a good week for space science as a team of astronomers at Northwestern University may have detected the afterglow from a kilonova, a merger of two neutron stars, setting off a blast 1,000 times brighter than a classical ...

It was a good week for space science, as an international team found two colossal black holes locked in dance at the heart of a galaxy. Initial data suggests they orbit around each other every two years. Also, another international ...

It was a good week for space science as astronomer Bill Gray, creator of The Guide, an astrometry software package, announced that he had been wrong in claiming that a rocket on course to crash into the moon was made by SpaceX. ...

It was a good week for chemistry research as a team of engineers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed a catalyst that can turn carbon dioxide into gasoline 1,000 times more efficiently ...

It was another good week for biological research, as a team at the University of California, Riverside found that human gut bacteria have sex to share vitamin B12—one cell forms a tube connecting to another cell, allowing ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as an international team of researchers found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates human endogenous retroviruses in blood cells, possibly explaining many of the commonly ...

It was a good week for physics research as a team from Virginia Tech made a heat discovery that expanded on an 18th-century principle involving ice placed on a hot surface—Jonathan Boreyko and Mojtaba Edalatpour found that ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team of researchers at the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety discovered a gene in Georgia sewer water that poses a possible global threat. The MCR-9 gene has ...

It was a good week for space science as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope opened its gold-plated mirror—an achievement that marked the completion of the unfolding of the powerful telescope's pieces, paving the way for some ...

It was a good week for human history as a team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...