Top science news headlines for the week 16

Monday, Apr 13
Ecology
2582

Beneath this cemetery, 5.5 million wild bees form a giant underground city vital to spring pollination

Bio & Medicine
1880

A new fruit wash removes pesticides and extends shelf life

Astronomy
152

Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles

Archaeology
51

Scottish Neolithic tombs were used to trace kinship—including descent, DNA analysis reveals

Earth Sciences
50

Tiny particles in Arctic ponds may play role in cloud formation and climate change

Social Sciences
4

Teaching critical thinking may help teens resist fake news, AI slop and online harm

Economics & Business
9

GenAI could push consumer research toward generic, biased results

Tuesday, Apr 14
Bio & Medicine
13863

This nasal spray rewinds the aging brain, restoring memory and reversing inflammation in preclinical models

Astronomy
324

Not so dark with Alena Tensor: Math framework could explain dark matter without invisible particles

Astronomy
253

Could dark matter be made of black holes from a different universe?

Earth Sciences
840

Super magma reservoirs discovered beneath Tuscany

Environment
79

Mushroom slime removes up to 98.4% of microplastics from water, researchers report

Plants & Animals
38

Bonobos' peaceful reputation cracks after a rival group attack leaves an infant dead

General Physics
29

Mirror-positioning method could make quantum gravity tests possible

Wednesday, Apr 15
Ecology
106

Nature might have a universal rhythm

Plants & Animals
34

Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech

General Physics
482

Gravity follows Newton and Einstein's rules, even at cosmic scales

Condensed Matter
301

Scientists capture superconductivity's 'dancing pairs' for first time, revealing missing pieces in a decades-old theory

Environment
10

How microplastics hurt the species that keep our coasts healthy

Social Sciences
60

Autonomy key to happiness, study finds

Astronomy
100

A 3D map of 47 million galaxies is redefining our view of the universe

Thursday, Apr 16
Earth Sciences
135

Atlantic current system could be weakening faster than expected

Evolution
101

Baby Neanderthals may have had a rapid growth spurt compared to modern babies

Earth Sciences
55

Waikīkī faces escalating threat of sewage-contaminated flooding as sea level rises

Evolution
58

Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift

Cell & Microbiology
27

Cells have a secret 'courier system' that could open hard-to-reach targets for RNA and gene therapies

Social Sciences
379

Too hot to handle? How heat is reshaping US population shifts

Economics & Business
16

Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here

Friday, Apr 17
Earth Sciences
1148

The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for 5 million years: Scientists now know where it went

Analytical Chemistry
565

Platinum-free catalyst splits hydrogen from water for energy, running 1,000 hours at industry standards

Bio & Medicine
36

Nanobody repairs misfolded CFTR inside cells, boosting function in cystic fibrosis

Cell & Microbiology
1349

Antioxidant glutathione discovered to play a key role in proper protein folding

Analytical Chemistry
162

Iron plus UV light turns alcohol into hydrogen with catalyst-like efficiency

Bio & Medicine
127

Medicine's next leap: Delivering gene therapies exactly where they're needed

Molecular & Computational biology
12

Catching a scramblase in the act could pave the way to improved blood disorder and cancer treatments

Saturday, Apr 18
Social Sciences
3225

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study

Condensed Matter
145

Surprising link between metallicity and superconductivity uncovered in twisted trilayer graphene

Mathematics
1440

Mental math's shortcut—pupil dilation suggests people start solving before all numbers are in

Earth Sciences
77

Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread

Plants & Animals
80

How poison frogs built a chemical weapons system one evolutionary step at a time

Education
17

Prenatal opioid exposure in babies doesn't predict future classroom performance, study finds

Plants & Animals
48

Raven personalities shape survival as human pressure grows at the Dead Sea

Sunday, Apr 19
Earth Sciences
308

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites

Education
36

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

Social Sciences
42

What happens when men don't feel 'man enough'?

Astronomy
95

These blazing blue explosions may be born when a compact dead star slams into a Wolf-Rayet star

Ecology
26

'Protected' seagrass meadows aren't necessarily healthy, because pollution doesn't stop at the shoreline

Molecular & Computational biology
76

This protein-engineering breakthrough generates over 10M data points and turbocharges AI in just three days

Planetary Sciences
64

Sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth's do