Top science news headlines for the week 34

Monday, Aug 17
Ecology
291

35-year monitoring study clarifies ecological forces behind Lyme disease risk

Evolution
107

Amber fossil reveals firefly relative with unprecedented antennae

Plants & Animals
2667

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

Social Sciences
16

Parents should encourage tweens and teens to take risks—here's why

Earth Sciences
221

Unlocking Gondwana's 120-million-year archive: Karoo record refines timing of extinctions and climate upheavals

Bio & Medicine
52

Gold nanoclusters could help break down Alzheimer's amyloid plaques

Evolution
1541

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

Tuesday, Aug 18
Earth Sciences
405

Lost 'mega-escarpment' across ancient USA may explain Grand Canyon's missing billion years

Evolution
40

Ancient Jomon DNA reveals a hidden Ice Age survival genetic toolkit

Social Sciences
11

Caregivers are active agents in their infants' learning, but interactions differ across cultures

Ecology
11

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

Earth Sciences
161

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

Environment
11

Make it rain: Indonesia chases clouds to stem El Niño fires

Quantum Physics
119

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

Wednesday, Aug 19
Cell & Microbiology
35

Gentle chemical glow helps scientists capture sharper images of living cells

Education
9

Does 'AI‑watermarking' mean the party is over for cheating students?

Astronomy
114

Dark Stars may have left gravitational-wave echoes across the universe

Earth Sciences
192

Volcano myths unravel, from 'smoke' plumes to Yellowstone catastrophe claims

Plants & Animals
1302

Italian scientists bet on octopus to fight crab invasion

Plants & Animals
523

Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring

Cell & Microbiology
34

A viral 'loose cannon' enzyme helps phages shut down bacterial defenses

Thursday, Aug 20
Plants & Animals
217

Honeybees struggle to gather nectar in August, direct measurements reveal

Archaeology
177

Stone tools suggest Neanderthals once inhabited Arabian deserts

Cell & Microbiology
96

'Shaking up' biofilm research: Active topography reduces bacterial infections

Environment
19

Honduras places 80% of country on El Niño drought alert

Environment
19

Area affected by wildfires in Europe could almost triple due to climate change

Biochemistry
36

Fibrinogen discovery reshapes understanding of how wounds heal

General Physics
276

Dark energy and quantum gravity may be deeply intertwined

Friday, Aug 21
Optics & Photonics
264

'Rainbow-on-a-chip' could help unlock 6G networks and precision timing for quantum technologies

Social Sciences
150

When 'but they're your family' isn't reason enough to stay

Biotechnology
112

Seeing the unseen: A new tool visualizes hidden structures in complex biological data

Earth Sciences
9

What comes after fire? What forests need to survive in a warming world

Cell & Microbiology
166

New ROOT method charts a path to reversing biological changes once thought irreversible

Bio & Medicine
18

Blood-camouflaged nanoparticles defeat drug-resistant breast tumors in mouse model

Ecology
56

Climate change could triple the price of wheat

Saturday, Aug 22
Biotechnology
657

AI decodes DNA initiator sequence found in about 60% of human genes

Archaeology
90

A museum-shelf mystery reveals 6,500-year-old human tooth pendant in Serbia

Ecology
83

How we found Haida Gwaii's first marbled murrelet nest in more than 30 years

Environment
24

Arctic shipping a daunting prospect in hotly contested region

Environment
83

Heat wave-hit Europe logs over 30,000 excess summer deaths: First figures

Astronomy
87

Earth's magnetosphere might not protect us from superstorms after all

Planetary Sciences
1159

Mars Curiosity rover discovers massive field of polygons

Sunday, Aug 23
Planetary Sciences
63

JWST peeks at Callisto's ancient scars

Condensed Matter
124

The superconducting gap of an ultrathin nickelate defies expectations

Space Exploration
34

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang'e-7 lunar mission launch

Social Sciences
94

Collaborative drawing offers new insights into how strangers become friends

Materials Science
99

Blowing in the wind, humble balloon gets green makeover

Cell & Microbiology
144

Protein degradation rate helps explain why humans develop more slowly than mice

Plants & Animals
25

Hot temperatures can dull blue morpho butterflies' iridescent scales