Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week – Possible fifth force of nature, India launches mini shuttle and how money matters in relationships
(ScienceX)—It was another interesting week for physics as a team of physicists at the University of California suggested that work done by another team of researchers in Hungary last year might have inadvertently revealed ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – A new form of light, a new species of horned dinosaur and a possible new treatment for depression
(ScienceX)—It was a good week for science and technology as a team of physicists at Trinity College and the CRANN Institute announced that they had discovered a new form of light, which could have an impact on our overall ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Controlling entangled atoms, excess folic acid causing autism and cells that retain memory of injury
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team with the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute announced that they had measured van der Waals forces of individual atoms using single noble gas ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – LHC readied for big run, human exodus likely due to climate change and gut benefits of coffee/wine
(ScienceX)—It was a good week for physics as a pair of researchers, Julian Gonzalez-Ayala and F. Angulo-Brown asked, why is space three-dimensional? They suggest that the second law of thermodynamics may yield the answer. ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Quantum physics in real life, testing relativity in space and a high-fat diet starving the brain
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team at Delft University took the next step towards observing quantum physics in real life—they created a reflective membrane, visible to the naked eye, which was able ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New state of water, solar plane crosses Pacific and OTC medicine found to cause cognitive problems
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that a new state of water molecule was discovered. The new tunneling state was found to ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Usefulness of quantum weirdness, using CRISPR on a human embryo and butter found to be not so harmful
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory announced that they had discovered a new type of material that may speed computing—called PtSn4, it is a topological ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – New state of matter, flaws in superconductor theory and role of heart and mind in developing wisdom
(Science X)—It was a big week in physics as an international team of researchers announced that a new state of matter had been detected in a two-dimensional material—first predicted 40 years ago, the state is known as ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Frozen Lake on Pluto, a portable drug making machine and impact of smoking while pregnant
(Science X)—It was a big week for space-based research as New Horizons imagery revealed a small, frozen lake on Pluto—NASA's spacecraft took pictures of what appeared to be a former lake of liquid nitrogen. Also, a researcher ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Demonstration of a quantum Fredkin gate, ultra-fast winds near a black hole and reversing diabetes
(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers working in China found that two defining features of quantum mechanics never appear together—they group was the first to confirm that nonlocality ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Physics formula contradicted research, Hubble unveiled monster stars and opiod-free pain relief
(ScienceX)—It was another interesting week for physics as a team at the University of Cincinnati announced that they had developed a formula that contradicts decades of published research. They claim to have found that ...
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 ...