Top science news headlines for the week 19

Monday, May 04
Social Sciences
29

Babies may share adults' sense of beauty, and it appears to sharpen with age

Environment
22

New insight could change how we break down 'forever chemicals'

Space Exploration
53

Mathematical framework solves asteroid route planning exactly for first time

Social Sciences
13

Denmark's 'hands‑off' approach to parenting could offer a blueprint for raising more resilient, self‑reliant kids

Earth Sciences
548

Buried electrical pathways across the US reveal new clues about Earth's interior and power grid risks

Social Sciences
14

They look like healthy motivation, but these viral posts may do more harm than good for young adults

Astronomy
382

Astronomers explore the surface composition of a nearby super-Earth

Tuesday, May 05
Evolution
412

Indigenous Andeans have a digestive superpower—and it may be linked to potatoes

Environment
3011

Climate scientist finds large errors in a global climate pollution database

Molecular & Computational biology
230

Almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins, new research finds

Cell & Microbiology
34

Life with one less: Engineered bacteria break the 20-amino-acid rule

General Physics
46

Understanding how lasers can rapidly magnetize fusion plasmas

Education
23

Books and brain development: Why reading is much more than a pastime for children and teens

Archaeology
277

Medieval jaw reveals Scotland's first known dental bridge made from 20-carat gold

Wednesday, May 06
Plants & Animals
112

What can singing mice say about human speech?

Other
100

Human language shows deep safety bias, challenging 70-year scientific consensus

Social Sciences
39

A tale as old as time: Young, attractive femme fatale lore appears in nearly every culture

Cell & Microbiology
33

A new kind of CRISPR could treat viral infection and cancer by shredding sick cells' DNA

Quantum Physics
97

A persistent quantum computing error finally explained

Environment
11

How to build cities for wildlife, not just people

Archaeology
59

Buried in Arnhem Land, an ancient fire trick may rewrite early stone technology's timeline

Thursday, May 07
Plants & Animals
102

Streetlights trigger bizarre 'death spirals' in thousands of isopods, scientists find

Archaeology
54

Modern experiments suggest rhino teeth may have been part of Neanderthal toolkits

Education
149

For years, reading struggles seemed obvious. This massive analysis points to a very different cause

Cell & Microbiology
56

Ultrasound waves rupture COVID-19 and flu viruses without damaging cells

Archaeology
79

Ice Age butcher's tools are a sign of ancient humans' creativity during hard times

Evolution
276

Ancient sea fossils indicate millipede and centipede ancestors evolved their legs while still underwater

Earth Sciences
18

Myanmar's devastating quake could reshape how California and other fault zones gauge future risk

Friday, May 08
Plants & Animals
11

Plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid by duplicating genomes, study suggests

Paleontology & Fossils
8

Dinosaur dental fossils reveal bird-like parental care bonds

Other
22

From flying discs to glowing orbs, these newly opened Pentagon files point somewhere stranger than expected

Earth Sciences
9

Myanmar says giant 11,000-carat ruby found in Mogok could rank among most valuable

Condensed Matter
23

The first direct observation of laser-created isolated hopfions

Planetary Sciences
18

How Dante's Inferno modeled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science

Environment
64

Oceans near record heat again as El Niño conditions begin to build