I tried reading the abstract and my eyes glazed over at the buzzword density. Is this hot doo doo or a meaningful result?

Some people answering the question 'What's cooler than blasting space debris with lasers...?'.

he initiative, 'Plan-S' (https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plan_S.pdf), brings together eleven top national research funders, plus the European Research Council, in an effort to release some of the world's highest quality and highest impact research from behind journal paywalls.

Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst, including subtle motions that betray what's being said and faint images of what's around a corner.

Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they've found one.

Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity (GR), has been tested precisely within the Solar System. However, it has been difficult to test GR on the scale of an individual galaxy. Collett et al. exploited a nearby gravitational lens system, in which light from a distant galaxy (the source) is bent by a foreground galaxy (the lens). Mass distribution in the lens was compared with the curvature of space-time around the lens, independently determined from the distorted image of the source. The result supports GR and eliminates some alternative theories of gravity.

An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago has detected far more electron neutrinos than predicted - a possible harbinger of a revolutionary new elementary particle called the sterile neutrino, though many physicists remain skeptical.

"...measured the way people make certain types of decisions and say that their statistical analysis of the results strongly suggests that the brain must store information in discrete form. Their conclusion has significant implications for neuroscientists and other researchers building devices to connect to the brain."

it works! No, of course it doesn't. I've wasted your time just posting this.

Scientists are preparing to create "miniature brains" that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt to understand how humans differ from our closest relatives.

Apparently Atlas became a ninja and I missed it: https://youtu.be/fRj34o4hN4I

I'll try not to take that personally...

Faced with a navigational challenge, neural networks spontaneously evolved units resembling the grid cells that help living animals find their way.

The Nature paper this article is reviewing (behind their paywall) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-018-0075-8

NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars and destinations beyond. Main page for kilopower project: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/kilopower

Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid Nanoclay (LNC) since 2005.

Agreed :) But, if it does work I doubt the guy will be able to enforce the patent in most of the countries where this will be helpful.

Two ways of measuring the universe's expansion rate yield two conflicting answers. Many point to the possibility of new physics at work, but a new analysis argues that unseen errors could be to blame. See also this work based on GAIA data that, on the other hand, reinforces the discrepancy: Milky Way Cepheid Standards for Measuring Cosmic Distances and Application to Gaia DR2: Implications for the Hubble Constant https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10655

Researchers have used machine learning to predict the chaotic evolution of a model flame front.