Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week–Bacteria that eats plastic, Go champion beat by computer and blueberries fighting Alzheimer's disease
(Science X)—It was a good week for science and technology, as it was found that a newly discovered type of bacteria can eat plastic bottles—the finding, by a team in Japan, could help get rid of the more than 50 million ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Entangling 3 light particles, repeating cosmic radio bursts and tea reducing risk of heart attacks
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a trio of researchers with the University of Siegen in Germany found evidence of an extreme violation of local realism in quantum hypergraph states—suggesting that they ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Finding missing matter, strange music from the moon and how junk food primes the brain
It was another good week for physics as a new fast radio burst discovery found 'missing matter' in the universe—the international team of space scientists used a combination of optical and radio telescopes to home in on ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New ways to measure entanglement, hobbit mystery perhaps solved and how stress impacts longevity
(Science X)—It was another good week for physics as an international team of researchers recorded the first video of the 100-nm space under an impacting Leidenfrost droplet—where a droplet appears to levitate on a hot ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Gravitational waves detected, hidden galaxies found and lipids combating Alzheimer's disease
(ScienceX)—It was, of course, a huge week for physics as gravitational waves were detected for the first time, by workers at both LIGO detectors in the U.S. Credit for the discovery goes to researchers working on the LIGO ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–New property of superconductivity, contact lens video screens and HPV causing throat and mouth cancers
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as an international team of researchers investigated the structure of time, with implications for quantum mechanics and philosophy—they proposed that the Planck time is ...
Recap / Best of Last Week–Rewriting physics books, new wireless power transfer system and revealing how cancer cells form tumors
(ScienceX)—It was a really big week for physics as an international team of researchers explained why a new physics theory could rewrite the textbooks—they are predicting that under certain conditions, the arrangement ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Explanation for heat loss in fusion reactors, a real ninth planet and garlic reducing arterial plaque
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers in the U.S. reported a new finding that may explain heat loss in fusion reactors—the degree of interacting turbulence at the tiniest scale accounting ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Gravitational wave rumors, Internet cutting cord with US gov and recovering memory from low fat diet
(ScienceX)—It was a very good week for physics as gravitational wave rumors rippled through the science world—all based on a Tweet from cosmologist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University. He made mention in a positive ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New quantum mechanical property, a human carrying drone and training the brain to control emotions
With CES running in Las Vegas, it has been a busy week for technology news, but physics research moved ahead as one team of researchers with the University of Twente in the Netherlands discovered a new fundamental quantum ...
Recap / Year in Review—The most important research of 2015: December
(ScienceX)—In this new monthly series, we are offering summary articles featuring links to some of the most interesting, intriguing or popular stories that appeared on ScienceX throughout 2015. This is the December 2015 ...
Recap / Year in Review—The most important research of 2015: November
(ScienceX)—In this new monthly series, we are offering summary articles featuring links to some of the most interesting, intriguing or popular stories that appeared on ScienceX throughout 2015. This is the November 2015 ...