Weekly recaps

It was a good week for earth science, as a trio of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Yale University and The University of Texas at Austin revealed the fate of sinking tectonic plates. Some are ...

It was a good week for Earth science research as a team at Harvard University found evidence suggesting that on ancient Earth, it never rained but it poured during times when the planet was 20 to 30 degrees Celsius warmer ...

It was a good week for space research as a team with members from several institutions in the U.S. and one in China found evidence of what might be the first planet discovered outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Also, an international ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers used NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to watch as a white dwarf switched on and off. Also, another team made up of astronomers from ...

It was a good week for space research, as an international team of astronomers discovered strange radio waves emerging from the direction of the galactic center—its high polarization suggested the light was oscillating ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers found that an extreme exoplanet was even more exotic than originally thought—WASP-76b was found to be hotter than expected. Also, a "double" galaxy ...

It was a good week for earth science as a team of researchers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, captured footage from inside of a hurricane using an ocean drone. Called Saildrone, the surfboard-shaped ...

An international team using genetic analysis to study human history reported glimmers of human history as they tied a gene to growth factors. A shortened version of a variant known as GHRd3 appeared to have helped people ...

It was a good week for astrophysics as a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge suggested that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment may have been an instance of detection of dark energy. Also, ...

It was a good week for scientists studying extinct creatures, as a team at Composite Films offered a new look at the extinct Tasmanian tiger by colorizing old film footage of the wolf-like thylacine, which was last seen over ...

It was a good week for space science as a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid since 1968 had been spotted—such sightings, the team noted, help space scientists learn about ...

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 ...