Weekly recaps
Recap / Best of Last Week—Consequences of climate change, supplanting lithium ion in batteries, repairing damaged muscle
It was an eye-opening week for Earth science as an international team of climate researchers warned that the potential to end humanity is "dangerously underexplored." They note that unexpected consequences of climate change ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Overshoot Day, ultrasound stickers see inside the body, viruses may trigger Alzheimer's disease
It was a good week for planetary science as a team at the University of Rochester wondering how Earth avoided a Mars-like fate found that ancient rocks suggest it had to do with the timing of the formation of Earth's inner ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—New phase of matter, a replacement for silicon, a better vaccine for omicron subvariants
It was a good week for physics as a team with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. created a strange new phase of matter in a quantum computer that acted like it had two dimensions. And an international ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Remeasuring the gravitational constant, preventing DNS attacks, impact of long COVID on people
It was a good week for physics research as a team at ETH Zurich remeasured the gravitational constant, which was a job long in the making. The work was conducted at the old Furggels fortress using lasers. Also, a team at ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Ditching dark matter, James Webb teaser pic, high-fat foods shrink brains
It was a good week for physics as a pair of physicists with the University of St. Andrews, in the U.K., argued that it is time to ditch dark matter theory in favor of Milgromian dynamics, which requires no invisible matter—Indranil ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Human fossils older than thought, cause of long COVID and monkeypox evolving faster than expected
It was a good week for Earth history research as a team of researchers using a newly developed dating method found evidence that some of the fossils found in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa might be more than 1 ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Stunning pics from Mars, an organic bipolar transistor, link between immune system and hair growth
It was a good week for space research as a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released images captured by the Curiosity rover showing stunning views of the Martian landscape taken while the rover was traveling through ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Multi-planet system found, chip reduces robot power needs, vitamin D deficiency linked to dementia
It was a good week for space science as a pair of researchers at the University of California, Davis, found evidence in a Martian meteorite that upset planet formation theories—surprisingly, krypton isotopes found in the ...
Recap / Best of Last Week—Micrometeoroid hits James Webb telescope, speeding up Unix programs, native herbs help diabetics
Space science was presented with a few obstacles last week as a team at NASA announced that one of the mirrors on the James Webb space telescope was struck by a micrometeoroid in May. Fortunately, testing has shown that the ...
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 ...