Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—Slow early universe, generating hydrogen on rooftops, using resistance training to slow Alzheimer's
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Listening to gravitational waves, computer issues waste time, benefits of vitamin D in older people
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Reconstructing an Anglo-Saxon teen, AI death spiral, gas stoves emit cancer-causing chemical
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Hand disorder traced to Neanderthal genes, a giant leap in computer sorting, a way to live longer
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA, teaching robots to clean, a cure for high blood pressure
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Neanderthals distilling birch tar, detecting bots posing as humans, slower intelligent brains
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Learning more about a quasar, generating video from brain waves, inducing torpor in rats and mice
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Trying to detect dark photon dark matter, testing GPT detectors, identifying narcissism
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Evidence of Beaufort Gyre stabilization, bias in OpenAI models and thoughts influencing senses
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 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Female astronauts are more efficient, dangers of AI are overstated, lessening back pain
It was a good week for space science, as the Space Medicine Team, European Space Agency, found that female astronauts are more efficient than males. Women have lower water requirements for hydration and also lower total energy ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New mammalian tree of life, an AI to generate food recipes and trialing retinitis pigmentosa therapy
It was a good week for the biological sciences, as a team of neuroscientists at Duke University discovered electrical activity within cells that could change the way scientists think about biological chemistry—they found ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Why hair turns gray, a new way to generate electricity, improving MRI resolution
It was a good week for the biological sciences, as a team of dermatologists at the Grossman School of Medicine, working with a colleague from Kyoto University Hospital–iACT and another from the Icahn School of Medicine ...