Weekly recaps

It was a good week for Earth science as a trio of researchers from Japan, the U.K. and Sweden ran artificial intelligence applications that found surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctions—Jennifer Hoyal ...

It was a good week for historical research as a team at Germany's state archaeology museum reported on the finding by World Wildlife Fund divers of a Nazi Enigma code machine on the seabed in the Baltic Sea. Also, a team ...

It was another good week for space science as amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero found possible evidence for a source of the famous "Wow!" signal—a sun-like star in the region of space where the signal originated that ...

It was a good week for space news as a team of researchers at Rice University reported that this December, Jupiter and Saturn will look like a double planet for the first time since the Middle Ages—they claim it will appear ...

It was another good week for space research, as a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found evidence in molybdenum isotopes showing that the solar system formed in less than 200,000 years approximately 4.5 billion ...

It was a good week for physics as an international team of physicists found a way to explain gravity without involving string theory, showing that it is possible to connect general relativity and quantum mechanics using other ...

It was a good week for space research as a team at Northern Arizona University discovered activity on a distant planetary object: they found differences in images taken of Centaur 2014 OG392 at different times. Also, an international ...

It was another good week for physics research as a team with members from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of Colorado, Stanford University and the University of Nevada used precision metrology ...

It was another good week for physics as a combined team from Beihang University and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz successfully carried out controlled transport of stored light by holding it in a cloud of cold atoms—they ...

It was a good week for physics as a team with members from the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk, the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London found the upper limit for the speed of sound. ...

It was another good week for physics research as a team at the University of Arkansas built a circuit that generated clean, limitless power from graphene. It worked by capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it ...

It was another good week for physics as a team at Lancaster University established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit—because of exotic particles that stick to surfaces in the superfluid. ...