Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week–Accuracy of two-qubit calculations, energy from seawater and health benefits of glucosamine supplement
It was another good week for physics research as a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, shed new light on the atomic wave function using laser light and other ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Gravitational waves leaving a mark, a new way to compute and sunscreen chemicals entering the body
It was another good week for physics, as a team of researchers working at the University of Chicago violated Bell's inequality with remotely connected superconducting qubits—demonstrating that precise quantum information ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Dark matter exists, using A/Cs to reverse climate change and using sex drugs to treat heart failure
It was another good week for physics, as a team at the International School of Advanced Studies announced that dark matter exists—they claim their observations disprove alternate explanations. Also, a team at the Institute ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Rarest event ever recorded, a Marsquake detected and generational effects of a popular weed killer
It was a good week for physics as The XENON Collaboration research team announced that they had built a dark matter detector that observed the rarest event ever recorded—the radioactive decay of xenon-124. Also, a team ...
Recap / Best of Last Week –Travel through wormholes, electricity from snow and health risk of dining late, skipping breakfast
It was a big week for physics as a team at the University of Zurich reported on some thermodynamic magic that enables cooling without energy consumption—they built a device that allowed heat to flow from a cold source to ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Giant Stratolaunch flies, first ever photo of a black hole and zapping the brain to improve memory
Last week, an international collaborative of astronomers released the first-ever photo of a black hole—an event that led to major headlines around the world. The Event Horizon Telescope, a planetary-scale array of eight ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – First picture of black hole, new kind of airplane wing and alcohol brain damage after cessation
It was a big week for space news, as multiple teams around the globe made headlines with the announcement that they were set to unveil the first picture of a black hole using data from eight radio telescopes to create one ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – What happened before the Big Bang, a new class of pentaquarks and celibacy rates rising in the U.S.
It was a big week for physics as a team with members from the Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian and Harvard University, presented some ideas on what happened before the Big Bang by applying what they describe as a primordial ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Robots let bees and fish talk, stopping superbugs on the ISS and why time flies as we age
It was a big week for technology development, as a team led by a group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne described an experiment in which robots enabled bees and fish to talk to each other—robots in Austria and ...
Recap / Researchers find bee species where males perform babysitting duties
A team of researchers with Charles University and the Czech Academy of Science has discovered a species of bee where males guard a nest while females are off gathering food for their young. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Reversing time, curing blindness with genes and the health dangers of eating eggs
It was a good week for space news as an international team reported on how they had observed the formation sites of solar-system-like planets. Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array the team found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Sound waves carrying mass, strength of asteroids and taking protein before bed to boost muscle mass
It was another good week for physics as a team at Caltech discovered surprisingly complex states emerging from simple synchronized networks and suggested their findings could lead to new tools for controlling them. Also, ...