Top science news headlines for the week 31

Monday, Jul 27
Cell & Microbiology
19

Harmful bugs can thrive in your kitchen sponge for weeks, and you won't be able to tell

Astronomy
772

Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events

Social Sciences
186

Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don't, researchers find

Condensed Matter
359

Physicists capture first direct evidence of a Floquet topological state

Biochemistry
42

Why the future of fashion might involve wearing live fungi

Biotechnology
19

Purple corn offers a stable natural alternative to artificial food dyes

Plants & Animals
27

Seabirds trade their own survival to raise more chicks after energy-intensive breeding seasons

Tuesday, Jul 28
Earth Sciences
383

California drought may have pushed parts of the Sacramento Valley aquifer toward permanent collapse

Social Sciences
167

Psychologist develops puzzle that can tell you how fast you think

Archaeology
853

New theory on how six‑tonne Stonehenge rock was transported from Scotland thousands of years ago: On a glacier

Molecular & Computational biology
14

Cracking the axolotl code: How to regrow limbs and stay young

Archaeology
376

DNA studies uncover a forgotten population at the top of the world

Biochemistry
8

Plant-derived lignin could guide bone repair by forming bone-like minerals

Astronomy
67

More evidence Mars once had water emerges from old Spirit rover data

Wednesday, Jul 29
Evolution
318

Monkey friendships with dogs, deer and even pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping

Archaeology
643

An ancient civilization of millions once flourished in the Amazon

Earth Sciences
164

The oceans near Australia may be the best places to fertilize for removing carbon dioxide

Ecology
314

Where have all the wasps gone this summer?

Analytical Chemistry
8

Advanced mass spectrometry technique breaks free from specialist hardware

Plants & Animals
11

Trees and microbes team up to improve nitrogen nutrient processes in higher CO₂ conditions

Environment
11

More than half of England 'officially in drought': UK govt

Thursday, Jul 30
Evolution
733

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors

Biotechnology
618

Combined rattlesnake proteins prove 10 times more potent than current antivenom in lab tests

Education
10

Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop

Earth Sciences
32

Rainfall across the US is increasingly coming from farther away

Analytical Chemistry
129

Hiroshima blast debris reveals a previously unknown alloy

Astronomy
34

Ancient stardust grains were seeds for the earliest solids in the solar system

Astronomy
25

Meet the astronomer digging into the Milky Way's 'fossils'

Friday, Jul 31
Astronomy
2091

Astronomers finally measure the full size of the largest known galaxy

Evolution
114

Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships

Nanomaterials
73

Magnetic nanoparticles remove forever chemicals from water

Archaeology
85

Ancient Rome's food shortages were shaped more by logistics than climate

Analytical Chemistry
125

Diego Rivera claimed his mural Creation was half wax, but chemical forensics says otherwise

Analytical Chemistry
10

Chemists unlock Appel fluorination with potassium fluoride

Environment
13

Technical flaws may inflate Australia's forest carbon credits

Saturday, Aug 01
Plants & Animals
343

AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates

Quantum Physics
744

Quantum computer completes verified task beyond practical reach of classical simulations

Ecology
211

Insights into bee biology could ease US rules for organic honey

Earth Sciences
35

Ancient diamond preserves evidence of water-bearing mineral deep in Earth's mantle

Ecology
16

How new informatics tools help turn biodiversity data into policy insights

Environment
20

Strengthening El Nino 'adding fuel to a planet already on fire': UN chief

Condensed Matter
188

Unusual metal oxide shows signs of magnetism under lattice strain in ultrathin layers

Sunday, Aug 02
Plants & Animals
252

How simple amber lights could make nights safer for insects

Molecular & Computational biology
67

Newly unearthed mechanism that helps plants 'feel full' could help crops use fertilizer more efficiently

Biochemistry
56

Why some nitrogen-processing enzymes are more efficient than others

Ecology
16

Mom or not, caring for babies changes the brain

Molecular & Computational biology
37

Pine bark and sponge compounds could counter drug-resistant malaria and babesiosis

Astronomy
92

Webb reveals warped structure in nearby TW Hydrae's protoplanetary disk

Astronomy
89

DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets