Top science news headlines for the week 16

Monday, Apr 13
Ecology
2613

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

Bio & Medicine
1919

A new fruit wash removes pesticides and extends shelf life

Astronomy
158

Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles

Ecology
22

Link between pollinators and diverse landscapes is a two-way street

General Physics
131

'Ghost tunnels' guide sound waves in one direction while staying invisible to others

Environment
7

Fixing Baltimore's unequal weather data coverage

Social Sciences
35

Small talk surprises: Nine experiments show 'boring' topics feel more enjoyable

Tuesday, Apr 14
Bio & Medicine
14087

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

Astronomy
337

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

Astronomy
270

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

Earth Sciences
850

Super magma reservoirs discovered beneath Tuscany

General Physics
17

A 'blob' in a tank is helping scientists tease out the secrets of turbulence

Paleontology & Fossils
77

Toothy snout recasts Australia's famed Muttaburrasaurus as a picky eater

General Physics
24

Droplet impacts reveal surprising physics in shear-thickening fluids

Wednesday, Apr 15
Ecology
119

Nature might have a universal rhythm

General Physics
501

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

Plants & Animals
39

Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech

Condensed Matter
332

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

Astronomy
125

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

Environment
11

How microplastics hurt the species that keep our coasts healthy

Social Sciences
79

Autonomy key to happiness, study finds

Thursday, Apr 16
Earth Sciences
171

Atlantic current system could be weakening faster than expected

Evolution
116

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

Earth Sciences
56

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

Evolution
61

Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift

Cell & Microbiology
31

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

Astronomy
180

Weighing in on the mystery of the gravitational constant

Optics & Photonics
127

Quantum bottleneck breaks wide open as one light beam carries 23 secure channels at the same time

Friday, Apr 17
Earth Sciences
1272

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

Analytical Chemistry
589

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

Cell & Microbiology
1368

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

Bio & Medicine
40

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

Analytical Chemistry
189

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

Bio & Medicine
133

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

Molecular & Computational biology
13

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

Saturday, Apr 18
Social Sciences
3290

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

Earth Sciences
81

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

Condensed Matter
167

Surprising link between metallicity and superconductivity uncovered in twisted trilayer graphene

Mathematics
1503

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

Plants & Animals
91

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

Astronomy
201

DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring

Environment
28

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours

Sunday, Apr 19
Earth Sciences
348

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

Education
42

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

Materials Science
23

A cheaper way to fight 'forever chemicals': How pH-controlled traps could clean drinking water

Superconductivity
56

There's a range of magic angles to study superconductivity in a twisted 2D semiconductor

General Physics
27

How tiny voids could make fusion targets more stable under powerful shockwaves

Optics & Photonics
27

Generalized optical meta-spanners empower arbitrary light paths for multitasking optical manipulation

Planetary Sciences
68

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