https://phys.org/science-news/sci-other en-us The latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. It's been a long, eight-day leap week, and this weekend, I'm spending my free time working on the manuscript for my style guide for science writers, "How to Effectively Split an Infinitive." https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-wont-black-hole.html Other Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:10:04 EST news628517216 From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting developments over the past seven days. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-neurology-pair-bonding.html Other Sat, 24 Feb 2024 08:30:01 EST news627913365 Einstein's inexhaustible field equations just keep on predicting weird stellar objects, and the latest one is a doozy—so strap on your helmet, inside of which is another helmet, encasing still yet another helmet. This headgear is modeled on a weird solution to the field equations described below, along with an interesting neural study involving human speech in reverberant environments and predictions for the Atlantic Ocean over the next 20-odd-million years. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-einstein-revisited-atlantic.html Other Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:10:01 EST news627310328 "Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just editing a weekly roundup of science news stories for Saturday morning." This is the first line from my autobiographical one-man play about having multiple Firefox tabs open. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-dark-bug-marriageability.html Other Sat, 10 Feb 2024 10:00:01 EST news626706513 Coming in hot on February 3 with a photo of a cute French bully who did an amazing trick with his jawbone. Good boy! (Click!) Happy Saturday. Here's a roundup that includes news about additive printing of neurons, evidence that microbes like stuff, and the shifting temperature differential between day and night. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-dog-regenerates-body.html Other Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:30:01 EST news626102356 Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-science-sleuths-technology-fakery-plagiarism.html Other Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:32:41 EST news625667544 There are fields of scientific research that involve neither vast cosmic phenomena nor extremely cute animals, but those are topics of high salience in Saturday Citations, and this week is no exception. And we'll probably play the odds and say next week won't be either. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-cutest-conservationists-weird.html Other Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:50:01 EST news624887136 The Dark Energy Survey took an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant—and it's smaller than you might think! There were other stories as well, including one about primeval black holes, and because I am inescapably drawn by the relentless gravity of black hole news, it's included below, along with two other stories related in one way or another to heads. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-dark-energy-survey.html Other Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:00:01 EST news624282090 It's the futuristic year 2024! Where is the power loom that natural philosophers have been promising me? What's that? Edmund Cartwright already made one? In 1785? And it revolutionized industrial weaving? Sorry, it's been so long since the last Saturday post that I've completely lost track of the progress of science. Here are a few stories to launch into the new year. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-honey-yields-unexpected.html Other Sat, 06 Jan 2024 09:00:01 EST news623677924 This week, scientists reported on drinking beer, Saturnian expulsions, an ancient North American dog breed, and cats playing dogs' favorite game, fetch. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saturday-citations-dogs-woolly-cats.html Other Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:30:01 EST news621866912 It was a good year for research across multiple fields as a team at the University of Ottawa, working with colleagues Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino, from the Sapienza University of Rome, demonstrated a novel technique to visualize the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real time. This work that could lead to accelerated quantum technology advancements. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-year-articles.html Other Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:50:01 EST news621172814 This week we look at migratory stars, communicative children and how to make the best cup of coffee, as well as examining some of the latest COVID advice. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saturday-citations-extragalactic-stars-milky.html Other Sat, 09 Dec 2023 08:10:01 EST news621255842 This week in our wrap up, we lull you into a false sense of security with adorable lion cubs then ambush you with terrifying pulsars. We do this not out of a sense of malice but to prepare your mind for the possibility of a giant cosmic void. Also, Japan has launched a new fusion research facility. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saturday-citations-adorable-kittens-violent.html Other Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:00:02 EST news620652209 This week, we reported on new developments in lithium-ion batteries, and a real industrial pollution hat trick with stories on coal, lead and microplastics. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-microplastics-coal-filthy.html Other Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:30:01 EST news620055434 Newly published research reexamines the evaluation of scientific findings, proposing a network-based methodology for contextualizing a publication's impact. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-effective-method-impact-scientific.html Mathematics Other Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:51:20 EST news619721473 This week's news roundup includes a Bronze Age discovery that calls into question existing ideas of gender representation from the period. More research confirms that bonobos are actually nice. Plus: Actual good climate news? https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-bronze-age-gender-representation.html Other Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:10:02 EST news619443781 On a summer's day in July 1943, a U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber left Tunisia in North Africa on a mission to attack the Sciacca Aerodrome in Sicily, Italy. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forensic-scientists-world-war-decades.html Archaeology Other Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:40:04 EST news619375201 This week, we covered developments about a record-breaking black hole, the continued plight of polar bears, ChatGPT trying to learn intuition and more. Don't worry if you missed those stories. We've got you covered here. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-big-black-hole.html Other Sat, 11 Nov 2023 07:30:02 EST news618839229 Good morrow and a cheerful week's end to you. This week, we reported on notable developments in the lack of starfish body development. Physicists used a new method to revisit the planetary collision that likely formed the moon and might have found chunks of doomed planet Theia deep in the Earth's mantle. And in experiments, rats, as seen in the subway, are demonstrating the power of imagination, as seen on LeVar Burton's "Reading Rainbow." Worlds collide! https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-moon-rat-whimsy.html Other Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:00:01 EDT news618227224 This week, we reported on LIGO upgrades, parasitic fungi and a new analysis of Curiosity rover data. Also, did you know that viruses also attack bacteria? But at that scale, it's a lot less like catching a cold and a lot more like Harry Dean Stanton encountering the xenomorph in "Alien." https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-mars-limnology-phage.html Other Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:00:01 EDT news617628345 This week, we reported on the totality of the universe. We reported on some other subjects, as well, but since they're obviously encompassed by that first thing, enough said. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-golden-humans-cosmologists.html Other Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:10:02 EDT news617025768 This week, researchers proved empirically that life isn't fair. Also, you'll notice that, in a superhuman display of restraint, I managed to write a paragraph about the simulated universe hypothesis without once referencing "The Matrix." (Except for this reference.) https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-gravitational-simulated-universe.html Other Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:40:01 EDT news616419448 The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labor market. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-claudia-goldin-nobel-women-labor.html Other Economics & Business Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:48:25 EDT news616056496 They announced the Nobel prizes this week! But did any of the recipients teach an AI to play Street Fighter? Here are a few of this week's stories not yet lauded by international committees of scientists, but which we thought were pretty good: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-hippo-maxillofacial-issues.html Other Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:20:01 EDT news615809750 This week, we're highlighting a study involving toxic chemical contaminants, and just for fun, a second study involving other toxic chemical contaminants. But NASA made a cool time-lapse video using the good old Hubble space telescope, and a group of Italian demographers have a lot to say about the population-level consequences of lying. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-volcano-asteroid-nasa.html Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:30:01 EDT news615207143 This week, we reported on spider silk synthesis without spiders, and how policymakers are pursuing a wish-based approach to a global economy under climate change—what the kids call "manifesting" a green-growth future. Plus, black holes could be hungrier than previously believed. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-middleman-spider-silk.html Other Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:00:01 EDT news614602372 This week, we looked at the swirling chaos around supermassive black holes, anthropogenic climate effects over the Atlantic ocean and the threats to koalas. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-helmet-supermassive-black.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:40:01 EDT news614000141 Reanimating dead spiders to use them as robot claws, licking rocks, backwards talking and a toilet that scans "anal-prints": this year's Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of science. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dead-spider-claws-anal-print-toilets.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:33:57 EDT news614061230 Top science journal Nature was hit with claims last week that its editors—and those of other leading titles—have a bias towards papers highlighting negative climate change effects. It denies the allegation. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-editor-defends-peer-review-climate.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:22:50 EDT news613974162 Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders and explaining why scientists lick rocks, are among the winning achievements in this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for humorous scientific feats, organizers announced Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-repurposing-dead-spiders-cadaver-nose.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:16:37 EDT news613970189