Weekly recaps

It was a good week for physics, as a team of physicists affiliated with several institutions in South Korea claims to have created a room-temperature/ambient-pressure superconducting material, although their work has yet ...

It was an interesting week for psychological research, as a pair of scientists at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University reported that married couples who regularly engage in phone snubbing (phubbing) have lower marriage satisfaction ...

It was a good week for human behavior research as pair of archaeologists, one with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the other from Bar-Ilan University, found evidence of Roman-era necromancy practices in a cave in Israel. ...

It was a good week for space science, as a pair of astrophysicists, one with the University of Sydney, the other the University of Auckland, used quasar "clocks" to observe time dilation in the ancient universe. Geraint Lewis ...

It was a good week for space exploration, as officials with NASA reported that the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, had reestablished contact with mission controllers after going silent for 62 days. Also a team working on the ...

It was an interesting week for historical research as an international team of historians, archaeologists and evolution specialists reported that warfare was responsible for the boom-bust cycles of Neolithic societies—they ...

It was a good week for human history and archaeological research, as a team of geneticists from Sweden, the U.S. and Germany found evidence that the "Viking disease" hand disorder may have come from Neanderthal genes. The ...

It was an interesting week for the biological sciences, as a team of botanists at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences reported that wine grapes have a high deleterious genetic burden. Using machine learning, they ...

It was a good week for historical research as a team of archaeologists at the University of Tübingen, working with a colleague from the State Museum of Prehistory and another from Strasbourg University, found evidence showing ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers learned more about the properties of a recently discovered luminous quasar—called J1144, the quasi-stellar object has a bolometric luminosity ...

It was a good week for physics research as a combined team of space scientists from Tsinghua University, the Purple Mountain Observatory and Peking University reported that dark photon dark matter could be directly detected ...

It was a big week for Earth-based research as an international team of Earth scientists made the first observational evidence of Beaufort Gyre stabilization—a finding that suggests a huge freshwater release in the Arctic ...