Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—A new magnetic element, the cause of childhood leukemia, and leg exercise improving brain health
It was another good week for physics as a team led by a group at the University of Minnesota discovered a new magnetic element. They demonstrated that the chemical element ruthenium is the fourth single element to have unique ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Measuring pressure inside a proton, flying wireless robot insects and yogurt may treat inflammation
It was a good week for physics as a team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility conducted the first measurement of a subatomic particle's mechanical property, revealing the distribution ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Time travelers invited to Hawking memorial, hiding codes in text, benefits of low-energy diet
It was a good week for physics as a team of researchers from Germany and the U.S. suggested light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster, or even go quantum by making use of infrared laser pulses. And a ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Stephen Hawking's last theory, sauna bathing reducing stroke risk and health benefits of walnuts
It was a big week for physics as Stephen Hawking's final theory about the Big Bang was published. The paper was written in collaboration with Thomas Hertog and suggests the universe is not only finite but is much simpler ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – A galaxy megamerger, world's oldest spider and dark chocolate improving vision
It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers announced that they had witnessed a galaxy mega-merger—the impending collision of 14 young, starbursting galaxies. Also, officials with the European ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–Electron placed in dual state, a plastic eating enzyme and non-addicting alternatives for dental pain
It was a good week for physics, as a team from the University of Geneva and the Max Born Institute placed an electron, for the first time, in a dual state—neither freed nor bound, using a laser with a controlled shape. ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New measurement at Fermilab, new way to find blackholes and PTSD linked to stress in childhood
It was another good week for physics as a team at the University of Glasgow suggested that machine learning could help in the search for gravitational waves—they have built a preliminary system geared toward separating ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–New state of matter, new source of global nitrogen and link between red meat and colon cancer in women
It was another good week for physics as a team with members from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois found that order in disorder demonstrated a new state of matter—and whose structural order operates ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Neutrino mountain experiment, solving the knuckle-pop puzzle and impact of parental conflict on kids
It was an interesting week for physics as an international team of researchers reported their first results from the neutrino mountain experiment—they are attempting to prove that the neutrino may be its own antiparticle, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Pacific dump far larger than thought, Texas sinking and benefits in old age of eating fewer calories
It was a big week for environmental news as a team with Southern Methodist University discovered that radar images showed a large swath of a Texas oil patch was heaving and sinking at an alarming rate—sinkholes were found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–Stephen Hawking's passing, bottled water contaminated with plastic and fit women warding off dementia
It was a pretty big week for physics as Stephen Hawking, the best-known physicist of his time, died—one of science's biggest celebrities since Albert Einstein, Hawking not only conducted groundbreaking science but brought ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – A new way to see the quantum world, a battery breakthrough and cognitive control in creative people
It was a good week for physics as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics team at NIST announced that they had invented a new way to 'see' the quantum world—an imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements ...