Weekly recaps
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, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–More support for Planet Nine, gender brain differences and the impact of music listening on creativity
It was a good week for space science as two researchers from Caltech published papers supporting the existence of Planet Nine, the theoretical ninth planet. In their papers, Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin outlined new ...