Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—landscape hidden beneath ice, using AI to predict AI research, fasting is safe for diabetics
It was a good week for natural history research as a team of geologists from the U.K. and the U.S. found a hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers and frozen in time beneath the ice of Antarctica. Also, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week: Missing law of nature, a solar-power tipping point and powerful signals in brain white matter
It was a good week for evolutionary and historical research, as a multi-institutional, international collaboration showed that Neanderthals inherited at least 6% of their genome from a now-extinct lineage of early modern ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—early cities were violent, using AI to advance science, common herbicide harms adolescent brain
It was an interesting week for human behavior studies, as a team of economists from several institutions in the U.S. found that for most people, hunting for the cheapest price for a plane ticket is a waste of time, mostly ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—new mammal organelle, AI that designs robots, Stonehenge 'Altar Stone' has different origin
It was a good week for biology research, as a team of cell biologists at ETH Zurich identified a new organelle in mammalian cells. Called the exclusome, it is made of DNA rings called plasmids. A team led by a group at USC ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—new quiescent galaxy discovered, training a third robot arm, a drug to mimic exercise
It was a good week for space exploration, as a team of astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University discovered a new galaxy using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The quiescent galaxy has been named JWST-ER1. ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—electric blue tarantula, AI urban planning, link between chemicals and cancer in women
It was a busy week for biology research as a team of biochemists and molecular biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Spain reported that mature human sperm lack intact mitochondrial DNA. They found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—release of NASA UFO report, chatbots are self-aware, new trigger found for Parkinson's
It was a good week for physics and unexplained phenomena, as an international team of physicists found that matter constitutes 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe. The remainder is still under review, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—retiree finds gold treasure, vulnerable Chrome extensions and an online test for Parkinson's disease
It was a good week for human history as Norwegian retiree, Erlend Bore, using a newly purchased metal detector, found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls on the island of Rennesoey. The island lies just off the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—glaciation terminated by Earth tilt, a safer way to share online, small groups eat most of the beef
It was a good week for Earth science as a trio of volcanologists and geologists from Lithium Americas Corporation, GNS Science and Oregon State University reported that the McDermitt Caldera, on the Nevada/Oregon, border, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Paper straws may be harmful too, a battery to power contact lenses, adversity changes the brain
It was a cautionary week for climate science as population ecologist William Rees, with the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning, reminded denizens of Earth that the planet can only support ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Complexity of 1,314 languages, ChatGPT beats Stack Overflow, trapping light inside a magnet
It was a good week for human historical research, as a team of archaeologists from several institutions in China found evidence that China's ancient water pipe networks were a communal effort accomplished without a centralized ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Evidence of quantum superchemistry, hacking Zoom, Vlad the Impaler's bleeding tears
It was a good week for physics research as an international team of physicists confirmed a 67-year-old prediction that electrons in a solid state can mix to create a composite particle that is neutral, massless and does not ...