Top science news headlines for the week 27

Monday, Jun 29
Earth Sciences
30

Deadly Venezuela earthquakes raise concern in tremor-prone California

Materials Science
371

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

Plants & Animals
44

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

Cell & Microbiology
11

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

Bio & Medicine
33

Why nanoscale droplets don't coalesce and microscale droplets do

Environment
26

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

Environment
218

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

Tuesday, Jun 30
Archaeology
79

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

Earth Sciences
59

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

Agriculture
7

East Coast broccoli lowers costs and risks from California drought

Earth Sciences
22

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

Social Sciences
14

New research reveals the motivations and tactics used by call center fraudsters

General Physics
374

Quantum computer simulates hadronization, reproducing string breaking with 104 qubits

Biochemistry
6

How a sugar building block influences viral attachment

Wednesday, Jul 01
Biochemistry
253

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

Astronomy
79

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

Plants & Animals
65

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

Cell & Microbiology
54

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

Plants & Animals
299

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

Astronomy
38

Galaxy groups hiding in the universe's emptiest places

Environment
19

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

Thursday, Jul 02
Evolution
488

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

Earth Sciences
10

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

Optics & Photonics
33

Synchronized infrared lasers control molecular shape changes and expose hidden fingerprints

Earth Sciences
11

Image: Mediterranean Sea breaks June surface heat record

Environment
18

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

Environment
20

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

Plants & Animals
53

Quiet outings linked to more frequent dangerous wildlife encounters

Friday, Jul 03
Archaeology
76

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

Plants & Animals
456

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

Space Exploration
38

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

Cell & Microbiology
31

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

Plants & Animals
22

Colony connections determine ant wound care: Transitional workers treat injured nestmates

Archaeology
33

The discovery of an ancient child's skull sheds light on the early prehistoric farmers of Norway

Evolution
56

Megalodon's legendary life revealed by fossil rediscovery

Saturday, Jul 04
Plants & Animals
71

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

Astronomy
55

Planned 1.7 million satellites 'devastating' for astronomy: Study

Earth Sciences
279

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

Cell & Microbiology
59

How proteins are inserted into cell membranes

Archaeology
44

Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague's timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago

Astronomy
79

Astronomers may have caught an early galaxy in the process of dying

Condensed Matter
77

Optical writing of antiferromagnets points toward new storage devices and energy efficient information systems

Sunday, Jul 05
Paleontology & Fossils
263

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

Space Exploration
249

Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense

Environment
17

'Very dangerous' super typhoon nears US Pacific islands

Environment
63

The world's oceans are the hottest on record for June—and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more

Astronomy
218

A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe

Environment
24

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

Biotechnology
15

Mini monitor measures artificial heartbeat