Top science news headlines for the week 20

Monday, May 11
Evolution
36

When uncertainty spikes, chasing rewards backfires and a more informed strategy pulls ahead

Environment
10

Where scientists watch the forest breathe, findings uproot how people think about forest-atmosphere interactions

Earth Sciences
177

Deep beneath Swiss Alps, researchers trigger 8,000 tiny quakes in controlled test

Archaeology
20

Scurvy's skeletal fingerprint found in California's Late Holocene archaeological sites

Plants & Animals
14

Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights

Paleontology & Fossils
59

What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur‑killing asteroid armageddon: A blow‑by‑blow account

Ecology
74

War‑driven sea detours are reshaping shipping routes, putting whales off South Africa in sudden peril

Tuesday, May 12
Plants & Animals
1005

Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

Social Sciences
5

How we feel political emotions in our bodies—and why this matters for democracy

General Physics
31

80 years after the Trinity nuclear test, scientists identify new molecule-trapping crystal formed in the blast

Environment
4

AI tool developed to predict E. coli contamination in waterways

Plants & Animals
1

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals

Ecology
1

The fog is alive: Droplets host bacteria that clear toxins from our air

Earth Sciences
90

New tectonic plate boundary could be forming in Zambia, scientists say