Hello, stakeholders. (This is the nongendered term of address I've been workshopping because I see "folks" in too many social media posts.) Researchers this week reported on an AI model that atte...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-irrationality-genetic-basis.html
It's Saturday, which means that in a universe where the arrow of time moves backward, people have to go to work tomorrow. In such a hypothetical universe, Garfield hates Fridays—tough to imagin...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-bird-qubits-impossible.html
While I was assembling and formatting all these links, we had a 4.8-magnitude earthquake here on the East Coast, so apologies in advance for any misaligned text. This week: Gravitationally accele...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-ai-prisoner-dilemma.html
Is the milk sold today similar to the milk available 100 years ago? Here, drink this and give me your results. Also, physicists achieve superconductivity at a temperature slightly higher than 0 d...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-year-hot-qubits.html
If you missed some of our top stories this week, we have you covered. From an underachieving black hole to a new species of fluffy beetle, you can see it all here.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-anemic-galaxy-black.html
You never can tell when planetary scientists are going to discover a new giant volcano on Mars, but when it happens, I step out to the porch and raise my Lunar and Planetary Society Core-Mantle B...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-volcanoes-mars-starship.html
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Rodents eating herbal remedies. I watched a truck mistaken for an alien message. All those moments will be lost in time, like the Upper West Side und...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-rumbly-guts-alien.html
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
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 pa...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-neurology-pair-bonding.html
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 ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-einstein-revisited-atlantic.html
"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 mu...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-dark-bug-marriageability.html
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 pr...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-dog-regenerates-body.html
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
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 exc...
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-cutest-conservationists-weird.html
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 primev...
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-dark-energy-survey.html
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...
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-saturday-citations-honey-yields-unexpected.html
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
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, demonst...
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
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 m...
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saturday-citations-adorable-kittens-violent.html
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
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
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. P...
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-bronze-age-gender-representation.html
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
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...
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-big-black-hole.html
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 collis...
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-moon-rat-whimsy.html
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 ...
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-mars-limnology-phage.html
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
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 hypothe...
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-gravitational-simulated-universe.html
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