Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—newborn great white shark, Avocado the robot, diets that can alter immune system
It was a good week for the biological sciences as an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, working with a filmmaker from Malibu Artists Inc., observed and reported the first-ever sighting of a ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—syphilis already in the new world, a hypersonic heat shield, smallest knot ever created
It was a good week for the study of human history as a team of anthropologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the National Register of Peruvian Archaeologists, says that early ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—map of possible earthquakes, unique robot grows itself, VA most efficient hospital system
It was a good week for geoscience research as a team led by the U.S. Geological Survey created a new map that shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the U.S. Among other things, it shows that nearly ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—protein responsible for cancer, fingerprints not unique, how dietary restrictions slow aging
It was a good week for biology as a team of biochemists at the University of California, Riverside, tamed a chaotic protein believed to be responsible for fueling 75% of all cancers. Called MYC, the protein is responsible ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—giant predator worms, new type of transistor, complex sentences make brain work harder
It was a good week to start off the new year as an international team of natural and Earth scientists found evidence of giant predator worms that lived more than a half-billion years ago in North Greenland—fossils proving ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—SLIM enters moon orbit, smart devices running AI, neural correlates of mind wandering
The last week of 2023 was a good one for space research as officials at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, announced that its "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon" (SLIM) moon lander, had entered the moon's orbit—the craft ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–cause of large mammal decline, AI good imitator but not innovator, alcohol patterns and liver disease
It was a good week for research on environmental impacts on human history as a team of geologists, oceanographers and historians affiliated with several entities found evidence suggesting that North America's first people ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—entangling molecules, new way to collect solar energy, a brain device to treat TBI
It was a good week for physics research as two teams at University College London created quite a stir in the physics world when they announced via two papers, one published in Physical Review X, the other Nature Communications, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—LK-99 not a superconductor, tricking ChatGPT into leaking data, behaviors guided by dopamine
It was an interesting week for physics research as a team at the Austrian Academy of Sciences unveiled a new approach to the study of entanglement that they claim could significantly improve the understanding of entanglement ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Bronze Age megastructure found, Apple MacBook Pro hacked, the brain is not rewireable
It was an interesting week for human behavior and history as a team of climate scientists affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from the U.S., found evidence that human-produced aerosols ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—human evolutionary dead ends, AI forecasts weather in seconds, faces that are more real than real
It was a good week for human behavior research as a team of evolutionary anthropologists led by a group at Cambridge University found evidence that suggests young children may be psychologically wired to flourish with high ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—synthetic chromosome, computerized Othello solved, alcohol and caffeine impact on sleeping
It was a good week for biological research as a team of geneticists in the U.K. completed construction of a synthetic chromosome—their work was part of an international project aimed at building the world's first synthetic ...