Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—Biggest penguin ever, Google rival to ChatGPT, why cold water dunking makes people more alert
It was a good week for archaeological research as a pair of archaeologists with Lund University in Sweden discovered "a treasure trove" of plants aboard a sunken 15th-century Norse ship. Found off the coast of Sweden, the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—A new analog computer, a fairy robot, the mental health benefits of cinnamon
It was a good week for physics as a combined team of physicists from Stanford University and University College Dublin designed and built a quantum simulator platform demonstrating that a new type of analog computer could ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New approach to dark energy, ChatGPT passes law school exam, stress leads to depression
It was a good week for physics as a pair of physicists at the University of Luxembourg, Alexandre Tkatchenko and Dmitry V. Fedorov, took a new approach to solving the mystery of dark energy—they proposed using quantum scaling ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Nail polish dryers damage DNA, why batteries self-discharge, fixing high blood pressure
It was an interesting week for the study of human activities as a team at the University of California San Diego announced that UV-emitting nail polish dryers damage human DNA and cause mutations in cells—used to cure gel ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Record ocean temp set, new way to 3D print hydrogel electronics, nasal spray to ward off all viruses
A team of researchers from China, the U.S., Italy and New Zealand reported that ocean temperatures hit a new record high last year—the 10 zettajoule increase marked the hottest year ever recorded in the world's oceans. ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Entangled beams of light, AI gadgets at CES 2023, good hydration linked to healthy aging
It was a good week for science research as a team at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute's Laboratory for Coherent Manipulation of Atoms and Light developed a light source that produced two entangled beams of ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Penguins may possess self-awareness, a new way to refrigerate, the huge expense of treating sepsis
It was a good week for biological research as a team of biologists from Czechia, Germany and Austria, discovered a type of bacteria that uses both bacteriochlorophyll-based photosynthetic complexes and proton-pumping rhodopsins ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Fusion breakthrough, link between COVID and heart ailment, a lipid that plays a role in muscle aging
It was a good week for physics research as government officials in the U.S., including President Joe Biden, hailed the fusion breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a milestone for mitigating climate ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Turning a common plant into a weed, tapping water vapor over oceans, mapping sixth sense genes
It was an interesting week for planetary and Earth science as an international team of researchers discovered that intensive agricultural practices in North America over the past century have turned a wild plant into a pervasive ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Overturning bird evolutionary theory, dangers of AI apps, mapping multiple diseases in one person
A pair of paleontologists, one with the University of Cincinnati, the other the University of Colorado Boulder, rebutted recent reports that mammoths went extinct later than thought. Joshua Miller and Carl Simpson pointed ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Cracking Emperor Charles' code, mimicking sleep in AI, measuring glucose without drawing blood
It was a good week for code cracking and the discovery of a biological enigma, as a team at the Loria research lab in eastern France cracked Emperor Charles V's secret code and uncovered a secret plot to kill the Holy Roman ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New map of universe, smart home vulnerabilities and young people at risk of hearing loss
It was a good week for space science as a team of astronomers at Johns Hopkins University created a new map of the universe that shows, for the first time, the span of the entire known cosmos. Also, NASA announced that its ...