Weekly recaps

Recap / Best of Last Week–The strange interstellar asteroid, high-speed quantum encryption and cinnamon combating obesity

(ScienceX)—It was a good week for technology as an international team of researchers found that energy-saving LEDs are boosting light pollution worldwide—making lights more efficient, they found, has led to the installation ...

Week 48 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week–A new type of cosmic explosion, creating plasma in a defined shape and dogs helping people live longer

(ScienceX)—It was a big week for astronomy and astrophysics as an international of researchers working in Mexico used a high-altitude observatory to shed light on the origin of excess anti-matter—they captured the first ...

Week 47 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week–Power of quark fusion, alcohol killing brain stem cells and sleep deprivation causing mental problems

(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a pair of researchers with Tel Aviv University and the University of Chicago found that theoretical quark fusion could be more powerful than hydrogen fusion—their study ...

Week 46 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week – Aliens may look like us, risk of quantum attacks on Bitcoin and the benefits of strength exercise

(ScienceX)—It was a good week for space research as a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that a Martian ridge brought out the Curiostiy rover's color talents—special filters on the rover helped identify mineral ...

Week 45 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week–Nanomagnets that levitate, Yellowstone spawning super-eruptions and T cell activation altars behavior

(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as an international team of researchers proposed a test of quantum gravity using current technology based on laser based experiments. Also, a team at the University of Innsbruck ...

Week 44 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week – Neutron star smashup, liquid metal discovery and alcohol improving foreign language skills

It was a big week for space news as dozens of teams reported on a neutron star smashup that was seen for the first time, transforming our understanding of the universe. Such impacts, many concluded, likely forged up to half ...

Week 43 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week–Observing infinitely long wavelengths, finding Baryonic matter and heart burn drugs and liver disease

(ScienceX)—It was a good week for physics as a team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences reported that they had directly observed infinitely long wavelengths for the first time using ...

Week 42 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week – Nobel Prize for gravity waves, trying to explain Tabby's Star and exercising to prevent depression

(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics. Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won for their groundbreaking work in observing gravity waves for ...

Week 41 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week–Three detectors observe gravitational waves, harvesting energy from evaporation and chemicals in hash

(Science X)—It was another good week for physics as a team at the National Science Foundation announced that the LIGO and Virgo observatories detected gravitational wave signals from a black hole collision—marking the ...

Week 40 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week – New type of guitar string, looking for vanadium on Mars and US teens behind those of the 70s

(ScienceX)—It was an interesting week for Earth science as a team of geochemists with the University of Chicago conducted an analysis of titanium in ancient rocks that could create upheaval in the history of early Earth—they ...

Week 39 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week – Cassini crashes into Saturn, a skin patch to treat obesity and reversing damage from marijuana use

(ScienceX)—It was a very good week for space science as a team of Mars research subjects emerged a Mars-like habitat at a remote Hawaii volcano after eight months of isolation—the NASA backed project was meant to mimic ...

Week 38 2017 in Other Sciences
Recap / Best of Last Week—Reclassifying Earth, a device that identifies cancer and some benefits of a fatty diet

(ScienceX)—It was a good week for space science as a team with members from the University of Idaho and Wellesley College conducted a study of Uranus and found evidence that some of its moons are on a collision course, ...

Week 37 2017 in Other Sciences