Top science news headlines for the week 26

Monday, Jun 22
Biochemistry
89

How oxygen sneaks into a corked wine bottle long before the first pour

Biotechnology
203

Bird-derived gene tool inserts plant DNA 30 times more efficiently than CRISPR

Plants & Animals
129

Marmoset monkeys adapt their voices to sound more like their social partners, study finds

Plants & Animals
1297

Newly described Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare to catch a single ant species

Molecular & Computational biology
21

Cats age like humans—could studying their brains reveal healthy aging secrets?

Polymers
10

Molecular 'Velcro' gel removes PFAS from water without fluorinated materials

Plasma Physics
92

Modeling nuclear fusion at lightning speed

Tuesday, Jun 23
Veterinary medicine
28

Antibiotic resistance threatens vision in pets and horses, veterinary review warns

Earth Sciences
310

Oldest known asteroid impact on Earth dated to 3 billion years

Environment
17

Summer's silent killer: Why the world's heat waves are a global health emergency

Plants & Animals
25

This tiny Australian spider uses a high‑powered web catapult to trap and eat aggressive ants

Environment
16

Europe: the world's fastest-warming continent

Cell & Microbiology
13

Chloroplast study reveals molecular lock that helps power life on Earth

Plants & Animals
13

Researchers find microplastics in hedgehogs—then trace them back to pet food

Wednesday, Jun 24
Planetary Sciences
339

Did gravitational tides cause Earth's extinctions?

Biotechnology
37

By making key signaling molecules called β-arrestins into druggable targets, scientists crack long-standing challenge

Cell & Microbiology
15

Hospital workers' phones carry deadly superbugs

Archaeology
62

Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years, opening new window into prehistory

Planetary Sciences
830

Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers

Condensed Matter
30

Interlayer self-doping could unlock room-temperature multiferroics in atom-thin materials

Education
11

Language-based screeners may miss kids who struggle to read due to visual-processing issues

Thursday, Jun 25
General Physics
943

A thermodynamic approach to gravity could explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy

Plants & Animals
22

Shorter front-leg strides can be an early warning sign of dementia in senior dogs

Astronomy
255

The universe should look the same in all directions at large scales, but DESI data suggest otherwise

Earth Sciences
36

Warming may slow forest growth and cut carbon storage by 30%, model shows

Evolution
210

Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years

Earth Sciences
86

How ancient subduction zones helped create hotspots of mineral wealth

General Physics
127

Thirsty desert lizards inspire a new water-harvesting system

Friday, Jun 26
Space Exploration
101

The US and China are planning moon bases: Designs may cut construction waste and improve life on Earth

Evolution
174

Sea anemones reveal antiviral defense that reverses human immune playbook

Environment
11

Rising heat and humidity challenge energy-efficient data center cooling worldwide

Astronomy
76

A single origin story for the Milky Way's most mysterious stars

Ecology
38

An iron-driven chain reaction may trigger mass death of harmful algae blooms

Cell & Microbiology
30

Secrets of how we see color revealed at the molecular level

Plants & Animals
13

ROS-producing enzymes guide plant cell division and tissue patterning, gene-editing study shows

Saturday, Jun 27
Economics & Business
19

How everyone pays the cost for patents on seeds, and private companies get rich from keeping them secret

Cell & Microbiology
140

Peptide alternative to antibiotics could combat antimicrobial resistance crisis

Evolution
97

Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains

Evolution
159

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

Plants & Animals
428

The bond between humans and dogs remains remarkably consistent across societies, cross-cultural study reveals

Biochemistry
40

New workflow transforms nonfunctional protein scaffolds into active enzymes

Plants & Animals
115

Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil

Sunday, Jun 28
Biochemistry
336

Injectable silk-kudzu hydrogel achieves complete wound closure in laboratory tests

Bio & Medicine
368

Shining blue light on gold-graphene nanodots achieves wound healing trifecta

Earth Sciences
28

The sun's outbursts may briefly weaken rain and snow events across North America

Environment
35

Climate change to blame for intensity of Europe heat wave: Scientists

Astronomy
65

Off-center stellar death points to wandering supermassive black hole stripped of its own galaxy

Veterinary medicine
19

Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens—and even cats. A vet expert explains

Evolution
22

Ancient algal defenses against UV may have helped plants conquer land