Top science news headlines for the week 16

Monday, Apr 13
Ecology
2608

Beneath this cemetery, 5.5 million wild bees form a giant underground city vital to spring pollination

Bio & Medicine
1911

A new fruit wash removes pesticides and extends shelf life

Astronomy
157

Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles

Environment
7

Fixing Baltimore's unequal weather data coverage

Social Sciences
32

Small talk surprises: Nine experiments show 'boring' topics feel more enjoyable

Archaeology
57

Scottish Neolithic tombs were used to trace kinship—including descent, DNA analysis reveals

Environment
19

How hidden soil fungi 'steal' bacterial DNA to control the rain

Tuesday, Apr 14
Bio & Medicine
14050

This nasal spray rewinds the aging brain, restoring memory and reversing inflammation in preclinical models

Astronomy
335

Not so dark with Alena Tensor: Math framework could explain dark matter without invisible particles

Astronomy
265

Could dark matter be made of black holes from a different universe?

Earth Sciences
847

Super magma reservoirs discovered beneath Tuscany

General Physics
16

A 'blob' in a tank is helping scientists tease out the secrets of turbulence

General Physics
23

Droplet impacts reveal surprising physics in shear-thickening fluids

Paleontology & Fossils
73

Toothy snout recasts Australia's famed Muttaburrasaurus as a picky eater

Wednesday, Apr 15
Ecology
115

Nature might have a universal rhythm

General Physics
498

Gravity follows Newton and Einstein's rules, even at cosmic scales

Plants & Animals
37

Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech

Condensed Matter
323

Scientists capture superconductivity's 'dancing pairs' for first time, revealing missing pieces in a decades-old theory

Astronomy
117

A 3D map of 47 million galaxies is redefining our view of the universe

Environment
11

How microplastics hurt the species that keep our coasts healthy

Social Sciences
73

Autonomy key to happiness, study finds

Thursday, Apr 16
Earth Sciences
164

Atlantic current system could be weakening faster than expected

Evolution
111

Baby Neanderthals may have had a rapid growth spurt compared to modern babies

Earth Sciences
56

Waikīkī faces escalating threat of sewage-contaminated flooding as sea level rises

Evolution
60

Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift

Cell & Microbiology
29

Cells have a secret 'courier system' that could open hard-to-reach targets for RNA and gene therapies

Plants & Animals
37

Monkeys navigate a virtual forest with thought alone, pushing brain-computer interfaces beyond the lab

General Physics
261

Looking deep inside quarks: CMS test probes to 10⁻²⁰ meters and finds no inner structure

Friday, Apr 17
Analytical Chemistry
585

Platinum-free catalyst splits hydrogen from water for energy, running 1,000 hours at industry standards

Earth Sciences
1261

The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for 5 million years: Scientists now know where it went

Bio & Medicine
39

Nanobody repairs misfolded CFTR inside cells, boosting function in cystic fibrosis

Cell & Microbiology
1362

Antioxidant glutathione discovered to play a key role in proper protein folding

Analytical Chemistry
188

Iron plus UV light turns alcohol into hydrogen with catalyst-like efficiency

Bio & Medicine
132

Medicine's next leap: Delivering gene therapies exactly where they're needed

Molecular & Computational biology
12

Catching a scramblase in the act could pave the way to improved blood disorder and cancer treatments

Saturday, Apr 18
Social Sciences
3281

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study

Earth Sciences
81

Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread

Condensed Matter
159

Surprising link between metallicity and superconductivity uncovered in twisted trilayer graphene

Mathematics
1500

Mental math's shortcut—pupil dilation suggests people start solving before all numbers are in

Plants & Animals
88

How poison frogs built a chemical weapons system one evolutionary step at a time

Quantum Physics
132

Universal quantum protocol extracts maximum work without knowing a system's state in advance

Condensed Matter
31

Physics-based AI model opens new frontiers in dielectric materials exploration

Sunday, Apr 19
Earth Sciences
344

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites

Materials Science
22

A cheaper way to fight 'forever chemicals': How pH-controlled traps could clean drinking water

Education
40

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

Paleontology & Fossils
54

Moroccan dinosaur's fearsome tail spikes evolved much earlier than we thought—new discovery

Polymers
43

Hollow-sphere catalyst enables greener production of 99% pure propene at room temperature

Molecular & Computational biology
86

This protein-engineering breakthrough generates over 10M data points and turbocharges AI in just three days

Ecology
32

'Protected' seagrass meadows aren't necessarily healthy, because pollution doesn't stop at the shoreline