Weekly recaps

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 ...

It was a good week for the study of ancient animals as a team of researchers from China, the U.K. and Canada described an exquisitely preserved embryo that was found inside of a fossilized dinosaur egg—the 72 to 66-million-year-old ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team led by Louisiana State University's Jake Esselstyn identified 14 new endemic species of shrews on the island of Sulawesi—the largest number of new species identified ...

It was a good week for space science as a team with members from several institutions in Japan found that a young, sun-like star, may hold warnings for life on Earth. The star, named EK Draconis, ejected a massive burst of ...

It was a good week for biological science, as a team at Universidad de Chile, discovered a new dinosaur species with a unique slashing tail. About the size of a dog, it had seven pairs of "blades" positioned sideways like ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers discovered two exoplanets orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 137496. The extrasolar worlds were found using NASA's Kepler spacecraft data. Another ...

It was a good week for technology development as a team at Northwestern University announced a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen—including around corners—using scattered coherent light. Also, a team with ...