Top science news headlines for the week 34

Monday, Aug 17
Evolution
87

Amber fossil reveals firefly relative with unprecedented antennae

Plants & Animals
45

Two eyeless shrimp-like species found in Japan's groundwater are new to science

Bio & Medicine
40

Gold nanoclusters could help break down Alzheimer's amyloid plaques

Condensed Matter
186

Physicists predict a new form of quantum matter that holds itself together

Mathematics
60

Dice design solves board gaming's most surprisingly complex problem—who goes first?

Plants & Animals
1493

Molecular memory: How a mother's age echoes in her offspring's cells

Evolution
1033

Male Neanderthal pelvises resemble those of modern females, challenging decades-old assumptions

Tuesday, Aug 18
Environment
24

Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat for 1 billion people

Evolution
26

Ancient Jomon DNA reveals a hidden Ice Age survival genetic toolkit

Earth Sciences
101

Layered rock in India shows potential signs of microbial life dating to 3.5 billion years ago

Quantum Physics
57

The global race to make a practical quantum computer just took a big leap forward

Ecology
7

AI and 8 million digitized plant specimens reveal how the climate is changing nature in large parts of the world

Archaeology
46

Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years

Quantum Physics
50

A new approach to building noise-resistant quantum sensors