Weekly Review #35 – Summary of the latest news In science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash
Archaeologists Discover Dozens Of Cat Mummies, 100 Cat Statues In Ancient Tomb
The more archaeologists continue to explore the tombs of ancient Egypt, the more evidence mounts that ancient Egyptians admired cats — and loved mummifying them. Read More
Scientists Discover Adorable Bird That’s Actually 3 Species In One
Everyone might be obsessed with the Mandarin duck in New York these days, but there’s another bird worth your attention. Read More
Italian physicists came up with an equation for “perfect pizza”
In Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon plays an MIT janitor who solves a nearly unsolvable math problem that gets him the opportunity to do math every single day and see a psychologist. Read More
In the balance: scientists vote on a first change to kilogram in a century
For the band of specialists in the much-overlooked arena of metrology, it will be the most profound moment in more than a century. Read More
China’s artificial sun reaches fusion temperature: 100 million degrees
In a breakthrough for nuclear fusion research, scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor have produced temperatures necessary for nuclear fusion on Earth. Read More
Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard’s star
The study was co-led by researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, and from the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya and the Institute of Space Sciences/CSIC in Spain. Read More
Hydrogen sulfide surprises as it’s discovered to have hydrogen bonds
Hydrogen sulfide forms hydrogen bonds, scientists have found. Their discovery disproves 1954 Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s belief that, in its solid state, H2S is fundamentally different from H2O. Read More
Sleeping Sickness Can Drive You Mad. But Treatment Is Now Easier Than Ever
By the time the infection had invaded Ange Bukabau’s central nervous system and begun to affect her brain, her family didn’t know what to do with her. She was acting erratic, out of control. Read More
‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells implanted into a patient with Parkinson’s disease
Japanese neurosurgeons have implanted ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease for the first time. Read More
Scientists are turning human excrement into renewable biofuel
A team of researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has demonstrated, for the first time, a technique for converting human excrement into hydrochar—a safe, renewable biomass fuel that resembles charcoal—as well as a nutrient-rich fertilizer. Read More
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