How’s your weekend? Have you read about the muscular neutrino? It’s so great. This week, we also reported on male stick insects losing their reproductive function. Researchers are seeking cheaper approaches to creating a technology described by Scotty in “Star Trek IV.” And physicists explored the creation of a singularity-free black hole through pure gravity. Additionally, although I don’t want to swamp you with physics news, some theoreticians found evidence of two arrows of time in the quantum realm. And the complexity of birds’ brains evolved independently from mammals.
Saturday Citations: One tough neutrino; time palindrome time; sizing up animal brains
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