Weekly Review #37 – Summary of the latest news In science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash
Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth’s Surface
Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep ‘dark biosphere‘ of subterranean lifeforms that scientists are only just beginning to comprehend. Read More
MIT Scientists Just Used a Biological Virus to Make Faster Computers
When your computer stores data, it has to pause while the information moves from one piece of hardware to another. Read More
Parrot genome analysis reveals insights into longevity, cognition
Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises—or at least its genome—is telling scientists volumes about the longevity and highly developed cognitive abilities that give parrots so much in common with humans. Read More
New theory could explain missing 95 per cent of the cosmos
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses ‘negative mass.” If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago. Read More
Scientists discover how a single workout can activate your metabolism for days
A fascinating new study from scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center could provide some motivation to get moving, even just occasionally. The research has revealed that a single workout can positively affect the activity of neurons in the brain that influence metabolism for up to two days. Read More
Scientists invented a new material that gets thicker as you stretch it
Most of us think we have a pretty solid grasp on basic physics, and one of the assumptions we’ve come to form is that any material gets thinner as it’s stretched. It makes sense since the same amount of material spread over a larger area would have to mean that there’s less of it in any one spot, right? Read More
Scientists detect biggest known black-hole collision
An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times larger than the Sun – and from another three black-hole mergers. Read More
Scientists more accurately gauge the brightness of the universe
You’d think that it would be virtually impossible to determine the collective brightness of the observable universe, but a team of scientists has come surprisingly close. Read More
Genetic model refines knowledge of new cancer drugs
A protein crucial for cell division may help to explain why certain cancer therapies are more effective in some patients than others. Read More
Magnetic fields found in a jet from a baby star
An international research team led by Chin-Fei Lee in the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has made a breakthrough observation with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), confirming the presence of magnetic fields in a jet from a protostar. Read More
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