Weekly recaps

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of geobiologists at Virginia Tech found clues to Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago—evidence shows that its cause was tied to a global decrease in oxygen. Also, a pair of archaeologists, ...

It was a good week for biological research as a team at the University of Toronto found that some degree of antibiotic resistance can be linked to household products—they found that triclosan was the predominant antibiotic ...

It was a good week for physics research as an international team of astrophysicists made observations of star clusters that were consistent with the predictions of an alternative theory of gravity—called "modified Newtonian ...