Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—Unknown structure in galaxy, new skin for robots, supplements slow macular degeneration
It was a good week for space science as a team of researchers at NASA announced that they were looking forward to getting a glimpse of a world that constantly burns. The James Webb telescope will soon focus on 55 Cancri e, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—James Webb first assignment, 3D printing opaque resin, pulling drinking water from desert air
It was a good week for space science as the team at NASA working with the James Webb Telescope announced its initial assignment for its first year of studies—two hot exoplanets classified as "super-Earths." Also, a team ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Webb telescope nearly ready to go, a battery that absorbs CO2 emissions, understanding loneliness
It was a good week for space science as a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center announced that the James Webb Space Telescope was nearly set to begin science operations. All that is left to do is complete a few tracking ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Milky Way black hole imaged, using AI to stop traffic jams, a bacteriophage to treat infection
It was a good week for space science as a team with the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration made headlines around the world by revealing the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. The ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Groundwater system in Antarctica, drones flying through forests, vegetarian diets and children
It was a good week for Earth science as a team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. discovered a giant groundwater system in sediments below a section of Antarctic ice. Mapping it, they suggest, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Blueprint for life in asteroids, converting seawater to drinking water, factors that lead to cancer
It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team of researchers from several institutions in Australia and one in France showed that honeybees, along with humans, are the only known animals that can tell the difference ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Why Venus spins so slowly, new kind of 3D printing, just 25% feel recovered from COVID after a year
It was a good week for space science as University of California planetary scientist Stephen Kane, found that Venus's atmosphere explains why the planet rotates so slowly. Without it, he notes, the planet would likely have ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—SpacePerspective cabin design, making web surfing faster, new way to treat metabolic disorders
It was a good week for space science as a team with members from the U.S. and Taipa, Macau, discovered a 4-billion-year-old relic from the early solar system heading our way, although the comet, with a diameter of 130 meters, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—The farthest galaxy ever observed, using hydrogen to make steel, a new COVID-19 vaccine
It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers detected a galactic space laser. The powerful radio wave, known more technically as a "megamaser," was spotted using the MeerKAT telescope in South ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Constraining dark matter, mysterious giant stone jars, impact of salt intake on body
It was a good week for space science as a team at India's Tata Institute of Fundamental Research's International Centre for Theoretical Studies set constraints on compact dark matter from gravitational wave microlensing, ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – The speed of sound on Mars, microplastics found in blood, artificial sweeteners not safe
It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers revealed the best image yet of a mysterious radio circle in space. Theories about the nature of these objects range from the throats of wormholes ...
Recap / Best of Last Week – Milky Way massive bubbles, cleaning solar panels, mild side effects of COVID vaccines
It was a good week for space science as a collaborative at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin found evidence of massive bubbles at the center of the Milky Way caused by a supermassive black hole. Also, ...