Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week – Regime shift in Arctic Ocean, COVID-19's impact outside of lungs, SARS-CoV-2 spreads 10 meters
It was a good week for Earth science as a team at Stanford University discovered a 'regime shift' happening in the Arctic Ocean—blooms of phytoplankton have drastically altered the Arctic's ability to transform atmospheric ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Exotic particle observed, tracking coronavirus infections with phones and fixing eyesight with light
It was a good week for physics research as a team at MIT's LIGO Laboratory found that quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale—they discovered that quantum fluctuations could "kick" an object as large ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Hiding ignorance, Arctic on fire, and impact of exercise on genes
It was a good week for physics as a team at the University of Queensland showed that it was possible to hide ignorance—at least at the quantum level. They showed that in principle, ignorance of the whole does not always ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Unexplained radio waves with regular rhythm, eavesdropping lightbulbs and reverse aging technique
It was a big week for space science, as a pair of researchers at the University of Nottingham shed new light on the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy—astrophysicists Tom Westby and Christopher Conselice ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Micrometeoroid stardust, a Windows 10 worm, mask use could prevent second COVID-19 wave
It was another good week for space science as an international team of researchers closed in on a 12-billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'—the time before there were stars in the universe. Also, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Mirror image of Earth and sun, double-sided solar panels and taking Pepcid-AC for COVID-19 symptoms
It was a good week for space science as a team at the University of Sheffield reported that the chance of finding young Earth-like planets is higher than previously thought—they found that there were more stars like the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – US astronauts arrive at ISS, a wind, wave and solar collector and SARS-CoV-2 virus found in feces
It was a good week for space research as the team at SpaceX working with NASA, launched two astronauts into space aboard the Dragon capsule, which then arrived at and docked with the International Space Station. Also, a trio ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Extraterrestrial life, Surface Duo specs, and a low-energy neural network training system
It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers studying data sent back by the Curiosity Rover found clues of a chilly ancient Mars buried in rocks—some minerals in rocks suggested evidence ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Evidence of Earth's inner core rotating, new super-capacitors and parents' brains responding to kids
It was a good week for Earth science as a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found the best evidence yet of the Earth's inner core rotating. The researchers compared seismic data from a range of locations ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Global warming hot spots already here, fastest robot yet, and vitamin D deficiency worsens COVID-19
It was a good week for Earth sciences as a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that in some cases, cold air rises—and showed what that could mean for Earth's climate. They found that in the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Weird laws of nature, quantum logic gates and brain-inspired computing
It was a good week for physics as a team at the University of New South Wales found hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant after all—suggesting that the laws of nature are "downright weird," and ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: 'Memory transistors, a moon map, and COVID-19 reinfection possible
It was a good week for technology development as a team at Carnegie Mellon University debuted PATRICK, an untethered soft robot that artificially replicates the structure and behavior of a starfish. And security researcher ...