Top science news headlines for the week 27

Monday, Jun 29
Earth Sciences
33

Deadly Venezuela earthquakes raise concern in tremor-prone California

Materials Science
376

Unexpected pathway turns water and CO₂ into climate‑neutral methane on nickel–zirconia

Plants & Animals
72

Deep inside crocodile skulls, 100 million years of brain evolution barely registers

Cell & Microbiology
12

New cellular model for rare and deadly melanomas enables study of immunotherapy resistance

Environment
31

Decline in plankton across Northeast Atlantic sends stark warning for ocean health

Bio & Medicine
36

Why nanoscale droplets don't coalesce and microscale droplets do

Environment
221

What science tells us about the algae bloom in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Tuesday, Jun 30
Earth Sciences
63

Super-deep diamond discovery may rewrite Earth's role in preserving the building blocks of life

Archaeology
84

An iconic spear-throwing device likely wasn't used by prehistoric hunters until around 10,000 years ago

Earth Sciences
25

Industrial-era pollution and warming reshape Tibetan lake after 1,000 years of climate swings

Agriculture
8

East Coast broccoli lowers costs and risks from California drought

Evolution
7

3D genome analysis of germ cell formation tracks 350 million years of vertebrate evolution

Astronomy
61

Astronomers find an enigmatic source that is most likely a Little Red Dot in formation

Ecology
20

A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity—rice

Wednesday, Jul 01
Astronomy
84

The universe is less uniform than we thought—cosmology may need a radical rethink

Plants & Animals
67

400-year-old painting reveals a bat's secret diet

Biochemistry
261

Single-atom catalyst turns lignin into valuable chemicals with near-complete conversion

Cell & Microbiology
61

Baker's yeast shows potential in treatment of persistent fungal infection

Plants & Animals
312

Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, confirmed with DNA from 19th-century specimen

Environment
27

Cutting emissions more, removing carbon less could save 33,000 U.S. lives yearly

Environment
350

Walkable, greener neighborhoods linked to better physical and mental health across the U.S.

Thursday, Jul 02
Evolution
496

A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive

Earth Sciences
11

Prescribed burns may generate over 20% of fine particle pollution in southeastern US

Environment
19

Beyond the dust: Families describe daily health challenges near the Salton Sea

Environment
24

We can't air-condition our way out of a hotter future, says expert

Plants & Animals
61

How giant tropical trees transport water 70 meters to stay as drought-resilient as smaller trees

Optics & Photonics
37

Synchronized infrared lasers control molecular shape changes and expose hidden fingerprints

Earth Sciences
16

Image: Mediterranean Sea breaks June surface heat record

Friday, Jul 03
Archaeology
77

Researchers recreate a lost Ming Dynasty goldworking technique to make replica royal jewelry

Plants & Animals
462

Mammals use the same underlying system—preserved through evolution—to process smells

Space Exploration
44

Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that's falling back to Earth

Cell & Microbiology
33

Natural born killers—tracking immune cells as they cluster around cancer

Biotechnology
56

Giant wheat starch granules—a leap forward in biological engineering with potential benefits for diet, manufacturing

Earth Sciences
42

A benchmark for how different disturbances influence the loss and recovery of carbon and CO₂ in tropical forests

Optics & Photonics
51

Plug-and-play single-photon source can work at room temperature

Saturday, Jul 04
Plants & Animals
73

A young gull's mottled brown plumage acts as a 'not a threat' signal to territorial adults

Cell & Microbiology
64

How proteins are inserted into cell membranes

Astronomy
59

Planned 1.7 million satellites 'devastating' for astronomy: Study

Earth Sciences
289

Greenland meltwater adds to AMOC weakening, but updated model finds no tipping point in sight

Plants & Animals
46

New species of ghost shark may have been found in Costa Rica

Paleontology & Fossils
37

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer

Environment
106

One for the history books: What we know about the European heat wave

Sunday, Jul 05
Paleontology & Fossils
269

Rare 309-million-year-old fossils suggest early tetrapods developed without tadpole phase

Astronomy
221

A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe

Environment
29

European cities short on shade as heat waves hit, urban mapping reveals

Biotechnology
16

Mini monitor measures artificial heartbeat

Archaeology
349

Scattered bronze bells in Chinese lord's 2,600-year-old tomb point to ritual deactivation

Astronomy
98

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy

Astronomy
60

An island of calm at the violent heart of the galaxy