Top science news headlines for the week 24

Monday, Jun 08
Earth Sciences
1787

California's tectonic stress has reached record level, earthquake model reveals

Optics & Photonics
296

Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

Environment
10

Toward standardized microplastics monitoring in rivers

Cell & Microbiology
135

Bacteria can learn and form memories without a brain

Bio & Medicine
51

Medicinal plants yield carbon nanoparticles that glow red and flag toxic metals

Economics & Business
6

How NFL draft position overpromises player potential

Social Sciences
5

Q&A: Expert discusses 250 years of sports in the United States

Tuesday, Jun 09
Evolution
238

A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds

Archaeology
87

Maya altar and offerings at abandoned Belize sites highlight enduring ritual activities

Environment
136

Hundreds evacuated as waves batter New Zealand capital

Condensed Matter
47

Physicists observe synchronized quantum dance of excitons and phonons

Environment
54

The fifth national climate assessment: Report shows change is here, but there is hope

Quantum Physics
34

Physicists harness potential of quantum phase transitions

Earth Sciences
9

Real-time data assimilation system outperforms flood early warning system

Wednesday, Jun 10
Archaeology
247

Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution, argues archaeologist

Plants & Animals
36

Is your dog a lefty? New 'Doginburgh' test captures paw preference

Bio & Medicine
18

Acidic nanoparticles target Parkinson's at cellular source

Environment
12

'Cool Routes' finds cooler walking paths with hourly forecasts and street-level shade data

Plants & Animals
247

Chimpanzees react negatively to unfairness, especially when close partners are nearby

Bio & Medicine
14

Antibody-guided nanoparticles target blood cancer cells in bone marrow

Mathematics
33

Parents helping kids enjoy math may boost achievement as much as content support

Thursday, Jun 11
Ecology
400

First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet

Cell & Microbiology
1302

Scientists discover collagen, the human body's most abundant protein, is liquid-like inside cells

Space Exploration
135

How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon

Astrobiology
98

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Archaeology
99

Ancient DNA from Tuscan wells reveals origins of modern wine

Plants & Animals
653

Why restoring rivers isn't enough: New research shows fish are evolving in response to human-made rivers

General Physics
373

Collapsing stars could spawn mini-universes, offering new path to gravastars

Friday, Jun 12
General Physics
2030

Scientist creates 'mini‑universe' to measure time without a clock

General Physics
320

Why birds seem to ignore Newton: New theory could sharpen models of flocks, crowds and cells

Molecular & Computational biology
36

Slime molds make decisions using internal fluid flows

Archaeology
527

Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society

Space Exploration
50

Science fiction? Musk's lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say

Education
11

Study offers guidance to schools looking to create outdoor education programs

General Physics
422

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Saturday, Jun 13
Molecular & Computational biology
415

Dogs and humans are more alike than we thought, study finds

Astronomy
813

South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe

General Physics
191

Supercomputer illuminates subatomic particle that helps hold matter together

Environment
59

Ocean monitoring is in trouble: It's up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world's deep‑sea ecosystems

Earth Sciences
319

How directing water flows in the landscape could support groundwater and surface water streams

Astrobiology
116

David Kipping has new take on the existence of advanced life in the universe and the numbers are not encouraging

Plants & Animals
91

Harmonic radar tags reveal how mosquitoes move through fields and parkland

Sunday, Jun 14
Nanophysics
205

When less is more: Scaling law explains why ultrathin materials get stronger as they get thinner

Biochemistry
158

Burned as waste for years, this overlooked plant material is poised to reshape how nylon gets made

Archaeology
352

Rare 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes unearthed at Inca coastal site

Social Sciences
259

Is 'gender gating' the secret to success in online dating?

Planetary Sciences
41

NASA's proposed Early eVolution Explorer mission aims to solve the radius valley mystery

Plants & Animals
277

Devoted dads and citizen science: The evolution of parental care in harvestmen spiders is uncovered

Cell & Microbiology
113

Researchers publish first complete connectome of fruit fly brain and 'spinal cord'