Weekly recaps
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—A possible third human lineage, a way to trick ChatGPT, blood thinner as cancer treatment
It was a good week for historical research as a team of anthropologists and archaeologists from the University of Connecticut, the Smithsonian Institution, the Archaeological Society of Delaware, the University of Tennessee, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Superconducting claim, electric grid proposal for Africa, reason for cognitive decline in aging
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Phubbing can hurt marriages, ChatGPT growing dumber, a new nanomaterial
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 ...