Top science news headlines for the week 07

Monday, Feb 09
Archaeology
1889

5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

Plants & Animals
1477

Nature's 'engine is grinding to a halt' as climate change gains pace, says study

Mathematics
382

Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems

Paleontology & Fossils
366

How an ancient seafloor turned Arkansas into 'Sharkansas,' a shark fossil hotspot

Environment
1040

Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985

Plants & Animals
5390

Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster

Evolution
245

No animal alive today is 'primitive.' Why are so many still labeled that way?

Tuesday, Feb 10
Astronomy
417

Old galaxies in a young universe?

Condensed Matter
202

Current flows without heat loss in newly engineered fractional quantum material

Ecology
163

Fossil discovery suggests giant pythons once roamed Taiwan

Earth Sciences
2527

China's emissions policies are helping climate change but also creating a new problem

Plants & Animals
10126

New record of great white shark in Spain sparks a 160-year review

Evolution
854

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants

Astronomy
126

How giant galaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang

Wednesday, Feb 11
Evolution
554

Only humans have chins: Study shows it's an evolutionary accident

Archaeology
1967

Ancient DNA suggests hunter-gatherers in Europe's lowlands endured until 2500 BCE

Earth Sciences
265

Quick course correction needed to avoid 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists say

Earth Sciences
549

Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications

Astronomy
131

Mira A ejects seven Earth masses, forming a heart-shaped cloud 300 light-years away

Plants & Animals
110

How a tiny shrimp could hold the clue to better armor

Archaeology
219

7,000-year-old deer antler headdress from Eilsleben illustrates contact between hunter–gatherers and early farmers

Thursday, Feb 12
Archaeology
663

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them

Plants & Animals
213

100 beavers set to be reintroduced to the UK this year, with more to come

Astronomy
201

Failed supernova provides clearest view yet of a star collapsing into a black hole

Ecology
97

Scientists say genetic analysis could greatly speed restoration of iconic American chestnut

Nanophysics
109

A new microscope for the quantum age: Single nanoscale scan measures four key material properties

Astronomy
174

Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs

Evolution
94

Oldest known reptile skin impressions dated to 298 million years found in Germany

Friday, Feb 13
Environment
1252

Polluting the environment for all eternity—and still sticking our heads in the sand

Optics & Photonics
205

Time crystals could become accurate and efficient timekeepers

Archaeology
1490

Northern Britain's oldest human remains are of a young female child, DNA analysis reveals

General Physics
171

The IceCube experiment is ready to uncover more secrets of the universe

Evolution
152

Could the discovery of a tiny RNA molecule explain the origins of life?

Plants & Animals
174

Syntax discovered in the warbling duets of wild parrots

Condensed Matter
121

Electrically controllable 3D magnetic hopfions realized in chiral magnets

Saturday, Feb 14
Plants & Animals
634

Antipathy toward snakes? Your parents likely talked you into that at an early age

Paleontology & Fossils
199

Costa Rica digs up mastodon, giant sloth bones in major archaeological find

Earth Sciences
156

Antarctic ice melt can change global ocean circulation, sediment cores suggest

Economics & Business
1229

Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable

Earth Sciences
181

One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation

Analytical Chemistry
310

What's in your wine? Using NMR to reveal its chemical profile

Archaeology
227

Scent analysis reveals the composition of ancient Egyptian embalming materials

Sunday, Feb 15
Plants & Animals
182

Field observations and computer modeling help predict the world's deadly scorpion hotspots

Astronomy
194

How a certain form of dark matter may lead to the generation of cosmological magnetic fields

Earth Sciences
154

Microscopic plankton reveal tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea

Archaeology
129

Ancient cone-shaped vessels may have served as beeswax lamps during ritual processions, study finds

Astronomy
134

The Hubble tension: How magnetic fields could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries

Earth Sciences
88

Extreme rainfall is worsening algal blooms along South Korea's coast

Condensed Matter
191

Strong correlations and superconductivity observed in a supermoiré lattice