Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—New agents to fight COVID, Pfizer vaccine safety confirmed, flavonoid-rich foods help blood pressure
It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team at Maxwell Biosciences reported on their work that involved developing new agents that work against viruses that cause such diseases as COVID-19 and herpes. They have ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – The Atlas humanoid robot, a nuclear fusion milestone, using AI to find COVID battling drugs
It was another good week for space science as a team of researchers affiliated with institutions across the U.S. cracked a mystery of massive black holes and quasars using supercomputer simulations, determining how gas flows ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Estimating black holes, a personable CyberDog, treating people with cerebral venous thrombosis
It was another good week for space science, as a team with members from multiple institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. found that the size of black holes can be estimated by studying their eating patterns and some of the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week-Soft robot finger, missing link in blood pressure control found and COVID-19 antibodies last 7 months
It was a good week for Earth science as an international team of researchers found a link between the rise of oxygen on early Earth and changes to the planet's rotational speed—microbial communities at the bottom of a sinkhole ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Light from behind a black hole, Earth's vital signs worsening, COVID-19 vaccine antibodies wane
It was a good week for space science as a small international team of researchers detected light from behind a black hole for the first time—small flashes gave evidence of reflected X-rays. And another international team ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – 15,000-year-old viruses, chimps attacking gorillas, too much coffee leads to increased dementia
It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. confirmed via DNA analysis that a 93-year-old butterfly represented the first U.S. case of human-led ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Portending a supernova, enabling imagination in AI, fermented foods lower inflammation
It was a good week for space science as a small team with members from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Iowa and the Technical University of Denmark identified the source of Jupiter's gigantic magnetic ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Free-floating planets, 256 qubit quantum simulator, vaccine resistance to variant
It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers analyzing data from the Kepler Space Telescope glimpsed a population of free-floating planets, including four that were not bound to any star and ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Hawking's black hole theorem, computer generated lyrics, five-minute workout
It was a good week for space science as a team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., one in Canada and one in Israel discovered the most massive white dwarf ever observed—it was also the smallest, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: New human species, nuclear batteries, stress-induced gray hair
It was a good week for paleontological research as a team of Heriot-Watt University researchers from the Lyell Center in Edinburgh announced a surprise fossil discovery made in Tanzania—ancient animal tracks from an unknown ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Trouble with Hubble, artificial photosynthesis, red meat's role in colorectal cancer
It was a good week for space science as new calculations by a team with members from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Russia Perm National Research Polytechnic University supported an expanded planetary hypothesis ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: 99-million-year-old snail, 40-seat drone bus, laughing gas for depression
It was a good week for biological research as an international team of researchers discovered a 99-million-year-old snail fossilized in amber shortly after giving birth—it is one of the few land snail fossils that have ...