Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week – Plane with no moving parts, total body scanner and benefits of eating oranges, greens and berries
It was a good week for technology as a team at MIT demonstrated the first-ever plane with no moving parts—it was powered by an ionic wind. Also, another team at MIT explained the plummeting cost of solar power—they found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Super-Earth around Barnard's star, a way to improve battery life and fast walking link to health
It was a big week for space science as a large international team of researchers made headlines with the announcement that they had discovered a super-Earth around Barnard's star—the closest star to our sun. And another ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Alien spacecraft theory, moving closer to teleportation and lasting impact of high-fat diet
It was a big week for space science as astronomer peers pushed back against a Harvard team's 'alien spacecraft' theory—Shmuel Bialy and Avi Loeb made headlines by suggesting that 'Oumuamua, the first extra-solar object ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Bitcoin pushing global warming, browser history at risk and cell phones causing cancer in rats
It was a big week for planetary news as an international team led by the University of Queensland found that the world's last wilderness may vanish—because such areas are disappearing so rapidly. In more positive news, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Enough oxygen on Mars, parking cars with 12 neuron network, and drug cocktail that increases lifespan
It was a great week for space news, as a team with members from the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University found evidence suggesting that Mars could have enough molecular oxygen to support life, and where ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—kin of gravitational waves, world's beer supply threatened and bone strength bolstered by nutrition
It was another good week for physics as an international team found what they described as the kin of a gravitational wave source—a luminous blue kilonova. Also, a team with members from Northwestern, Harvard and Yale ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New idea for fusion power plants, world's fastest camera and a link between diet and depression
It was another good week for physics as a team at the University of Exeter found that new half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolution—they suggest the discovery may open the door to the development ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Nobel awards announced, Sans Forgetica and a link between periodontal bacteria and Alzheimer's
It was a big week for science—the Nobel prizes were announced:
Recap / Best of Last Week – Storing data using an atom, selling Martian dirt, reducing screen time to improve child cognition
It was another good week for physics as a team at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for information storage in one atom—using a scanning tunneling microscope to detect single cobalt atoms on a black phosphorus ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – A shake in the Milky Way, giving octopuses ecstasy, and cell stress and bacteria causing cancer
It was a big week for space science as an international team reported that Gaia had detected a shake in the Milky Way—data from the satellite revealed previously unknown structures in our galaxy. Also, a trio of researchers ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Teleporting a quantum gate, a mini space elevator and problems with jet-air hand dryers
It was another good week for physics as a team with members from the University of Queensland and the NÉEL Institute found quantum weirdness in the 'chicken or egg' paradox—suggesting they could both come first. And a ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Evidence of matter-matter coupling, no safe level for alcohol and dehydration impact on the brain
It was a good week for physics as an international team of researchers announced that they had found evidence of matter-matter coupling, which they noted could help advance the understanding of spintronics and quantum magnetism. ...