Top science news headlines for the week 18

Monday, Apr 27
Space Exploration
1468

An interplanetary shortcut can speed up trips to Mars

Veterinary medicine
294

Japan startup seeks approval of cat kidney disease treatment

Earth Sciences
191

An unprecedented Antarctic heat wave hit in the dead of winter—what it signals for the decades ahead

Soft Matter
57

Why dolphins swim so fast: The secrets of hidden whirlpools

Molecular & Computational biology
184

Beer and cannabis could share 'sex switch,' study finds

Earth Sciences
278

Simulations predict ground motion for earthquakes on Bay Area's Hayward fault

Biochemistry
59

What is black garlic? How heat and humidity turn a pungent ingredient mild and slightly sweet

Tuesday, Apr 28
Archaeology
149

Ancient farming clues may finally expose where humanity's most important wheat first emerged

Plants & Animals
180

Soil fertilization with Amazonian dark earth increases tree diameter by up to 88%

Earth Sciences
331

An anomaly in global sea level rise is explained by deep ocean heating

Optics & Photonics
54

Hidden stripe pattern lets microscopes auto-focus across 400 times deeper range

Environment
63

Invisible fertility crisis: Chemicals and climate change threaten reproduction across species

Social Sciences
45

You'd better start paying attention to the manosphere. You're living in it

Environment
24

Rainforests can buffer rising CO₂ in the short term—but this comes at a cost

Wednesday, Apr 29
Mathematics
290

Western music is getting simpler and more repetitive by the day and data prove it

Archaeology
343

New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

Earth Sciences
130

Where was your backyard millions of years ago?

Nanophysics
280

Levitated nano-ferromagnet confirms a 160-year-old physical prediction

Social Sciences
16

Young Americans aren't abandoning faith—study suggests they're rebuilding it

Evolution
36

The 'tail' of the shrinking dog brain: Study reveals they began getting smaller 5,000 years ago

Environment
50

Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests—despite being oversold 10-fold

Thursday, Apr 30
Mathematics
73

A physics explanation shows why US elections keep ending 50:50—and why more spending won't change that

General Physics
315

Frozen-in gravity: A new way to understand the evolution of spacetime dynamics

Polymers
68

Hemp-based thermoplastic offers a greener alternative to plastic packaging

General Physics
39

Sudden quantum jolts may not break adiabatic behavior after all

Ecology
204

Evolution has reused the same genes for 120 million years, study shows

Economics & Business
7

Why clear packaging may help brands sell more desirable products

Ecology
60

How mass extinctions helped termites become essential engineers of today's tropical ecosystems

Friday, May 01
Evolution
332

How oak trees outwit their predators

Optics & Photonics
717

Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab

Plants & Animals
81

Bigger, faster, but still outfoxed: How prey escape predators

Other
149

A leading journal finds that AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work

Education
18

Sramcbled wrods: The real reason you can still read jumbled text

General Physics
159

Physicists achieve first-ever 'quadsqueezing' quantum interaction

Space Exploration
55

Under crushing hypergravity, fruit flies adapt—and recover

Saturday, May 02
Plants & Animals
128

Bees can detect viruses in food sources, but don't necessarily avoid them

Environment
16

Blood-based DNA marker tracks arsenic exposure and may predict toxicity risk

Molecular & Computational biology
18

Q&A: What AI actually does in diffusion models for drug design

Paleontology & Fossils
922

Locked in stone for 210 million years, this newly identified crocodile cousin was built to crush larger prey

Social Sciences
75

Gold digging is not exclusive to women: New study uncovers common attributes

Social Sciences
49

Why Eurovision stays unpredictable after 70 years of copycats and rule changes

Biochemistry
67

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19

Sunday, May 03
Ecology
92

Rising temperatures could be driving up antibiotic resistance in soil, 11-year study finds

Cell & Microbiology
165

How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions

Veterinary medicine
22

Understanding canine distemper virus and increased risk during summer

Social Sciences
15

'GangTok': Insights into the presence of gang culture on TikTok

Ecology
85

Humpback whale 'Timmy' released in the North Sea after weeks stranded off Germany

Plants & Animals
113

Nest‑building chimpanzees seem to anticipate future weather

Plants & Animals
89

Deadly droughts and floods wipe out young California salmon en route to Pacific