Research Stash Weekly Review #35

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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