Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week: Harnessing entire spectrum of light, a milestone for universal memory, and a new take on Keto diet
It was a good week for physics as a team from the University of Waterloo found that wave echoes from a black hole may confirm Stephen Hawking's hypothesis of quantum black holes. They believe they detected signs of the quantum ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Living robots, the limits of universality, and switching to 1% milk
It was another good week for physics as a combined team from Rice University and Vienna University of Technology found billions of quantum entangled electrons in a "strange metal." The ytterbium, rhodium and silicon compound ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Smallest known dark matter clumps, gold made of plastic, a beverage to control blood sugar levels
It was another good week for physics as a team with members from Yonsei University, Lyon University and KASI found new evidence that showed that a key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error—they found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Particle accelerator on a chip, new lidar system and sleep impact on pulmonary fibrosis
It was another good week for physics as a team with members from the University of Waterloo, Universidade Federal do ABC and Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, described their experimental demonstration of a spin quantum ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Long distance qubit interactions, a zero-emission airplane and a possible cure for baldness
It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers from the University of Bristol and a group from the Technical University of Denmark reported the first chip-to-chip quantum teleportation—an innovation that ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Solving the three-body problem, a new kind of blockchain and sleep patterns and heart disease
It was another good week for physics as an international team of scientists cracked Newton's elusive three-body problem using traditional mathematics. Also, a team at the University of Bristol discovered that tractionless ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Quantum states in everyday electronics, an electric plane and leaky gut breakthrough
It was another good week for physics as a team at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering created quantum states in everyday electronics—they found they could create and control high-performance ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Gamma ray lasers, an unstable ice shelf, and cancer risk from hair products
It was a good week for physics research as a professor at the University of California-Riverside, Allen Mills, performed calculations that showed spherical bubbles filled with a gas of positronium atoms were stable in liquid ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Evidence of hypothetical particle, climate tipping points, dementia reduced by olive oil in mice
It was another good week for physics as a team working at CERN and led by Attila Krasznahorkay of the Atomki institute reported that the plot thickened for a hypothetical X17 particle—they found another anomaly in a nuclear ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Sugars in meteorites, Tesla's electric pickup truck, and dangerous effects of sleep deprivation
It was a good week for space research as an international team of researchers announced the first detection of sugars in meteorites, giving clues to the origin of life—the finding suggests meteorite bombardment may have ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Objective reality doesn't exist, Wi-Fi can track you in home, and the Keto diet's effect on the flu
It was a good week for physics as a team with members from MIT, Harvard University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and Argonne National Laboratory carried out an experiment with ultrafast laser ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space, Siri's laser weakness, and human disease killed the Neanderthal
It was a good week for space news, as a team at the University of Iowa announced that Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space—in addition to confirming that the craft has moved into the interstellar medium, they also detected ...