Weekly recaps

It was a good week for physics research, as a combined team from Columbia, Nanjing University, Princeton and the University of Munster found the first experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle in a quantum material—they ...

It was an eventful week for biology research, as a trio of environmental researchers in the U.S. found that there can be unintended harm associated with organic farming—the major one being increased pesticide use in surrounding ...

It was a good week for biological research, as a team of botanists found that giant sequoia trees are thriving in the U.K—the trees were imported to the U.K. starting approximately 160 years ago and now serve as an excellent ...

It was a good week for physics research as a team led by a group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reported an exception to a 200-year-old scientific law governing heat transfer—they found an example showing that ...

It was a good week for biology research as a multi-institutional team of evolutionary biologists conducted a genetic study that showed a Stone Age strategy that prevented inbreeding—unrelated families living together. Also, ...

It was a good week for biology research as a team of botanists at Pennsylvania State University discovered that a common plant could help reduce food insecurity. Called Carolina azolla, the plant is able to double its biomass ...

It was a good week for space science as a multi-institutional team of astronomers and astrophysicists found telescopic evidence that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning itself (and warping spacetime) ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, working with a filmmaker from Malibu Artists Inc., observed and reported the first-ever sighting of a ...

It was a good week for the study of human history as a team of anthropologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the National Register of Peruvian Archaeologists, says that early ...

It was a good week for geoscience research as a team led by the U.S. Geological Survey created a new map that shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in the U.S. Among other things, it shows that nearly ...

It was a good week for biology as a team of biochemists at the University of California, Riverside, tamed a chaotic protein believed to be responsible for fueling 75% of all cancers. Called MYC, the protein is responsible ...

It was a good week to start off the new year as an international team of natural and Earth scientists found evidence of giant predator worms that lived more than a half-billion years ago in North Greenland—fossils proving ...