Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week–Flaw in emergent gravity, Earth at risk of moving into hothouse state and probiotics causing problems
It was a good week for physics as a pair of researchers, Zhi-Wei Wang and Samuel Braunstein, found a flaw in emergent gravity—holographic screen surfaces described by the theory, they discovered, do not actually behave ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Terraforming Mars not possible, ending traffic jams and a switch that controls muscle development
It was a good week for physics as a team at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory reported that a material already known for its unique behavior carries current in a way never before observed—they found that cuprates ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–New way to make photons, rising ocean acidification and a neural link between depression and bad sleep
It was a good week for physics as an international team of physicists demonstrated a new method to make single photons—they named it "the unconventional photon blockade," and it involves exciting a quantum dot. Also, another ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Bread made before agriculture started, a telomere breakthrough and shortcomings of omega-3
It was a good week for historical science as a team with members from the University of Copenhagen, University College London and the University of Cambridge discovered the charred remains of bread that predates agriculture ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Century old physics riddle solved, world's oldest colors and eating fat is cause of weight gain
It was a good week for physics as a combined team from MIT and Harvard University asked whether gravitational waves could reveal how fast our universe is expanding. They have proposed a more accurate and independent way to ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Einstein found right again, how Uranus got its shape and evidence of cannabis easing pain lacking
It was a good week for physics as an international team of researchers found that Einstein got it right again—weak and strong gravity objects fall the same way. Using data from the Green Bank Telescope, they tested the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–A battery for cold climates, complex molecules found on Enceladus and new way to measure intelligence
It was a good week for technology as a team at Pennsylvania State University announced that they had developed a self-heating, fast-charging battery that makes electric vehicles climate-immune, possibly opening the door to ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–Proving Einstein right again, a drug that stops cancer from spreading and video game playing danger
It was another good week for astronomy and astrophysics as an international team of researchers reported that they had found the last of the universe's missing ordinary matter—in the space between galaxies. And it exists, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Possible new form of matter, black holes as wormholes and why hunger makes people angry
It was another good week for physics as a trio of researchers from the University of Toronto suggested that a new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table. Bob Holdom, Jing Ren and Chen Zhang suggested that elements ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Confirming Einstein's elevator, exciting news from Mars and medicines being improperly prescribed
It was another good week for physics as a team at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted an atomic clock comparison that confirmed key assumptions of 'Einstein's elevator'—one of the principles ...
Recap / Best of last week: Flux capacitor invented, a better 3-D printer and the true benefits of vitamins
It was a good week for physics as a team with members from Australia and Switzerland invented a flux capacitor able to break time-reversal symmetry. They proposed a device based on quantum tunneling of magnetic flux around ...
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 ...