Top science news headlines for the week 18

Monday, Apr 27
Space Exploration
1458

An interplanetary shortcut can speed up trips to Mars

Veterinary medicine
227

Japan startup seeks approval of cat kidney disease treatment

Earth Sciences
184

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

Earth Sciences
271

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

Soft Matter
50

Why dolphins swim so fast: The secrets of hidden whirlpools

Molecular & Computational biology
182

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

Biochemistry
56

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

Tuesday, Apr 28
Archaeology
140

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

Plants & Animals
177

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

Earth Sciences
326

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

Optics & Photonics
53

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

Environment
60

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

Social Sciences
43

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

Environment
22

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

Wednesday, Apr 29
Mathematics
279

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

Earth Sciences
121

Where was your backyard millions of years ago?

Nanophysics
276

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

Archaeology
340

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

Social Sciences
10

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

Evolution
34

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

Cell & Microbiology
24

No brain required: This is how the single-celled Stentor learns

Thursday, Apr 30
Mathematics
69

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

General Physics
305

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

Polymers
63

Hemp-based thermoplastic offers a greener alternative to plastic packaging

Earth Sciences
11

Wildfires leave lasting risks: Improving predictions of hazardous debris flows in burned areas

Environment
16

Report links biodiversity collapse to risks for financial systems and food security

General Physics
38

Sudden quantum jolts may not break adiabatic behavior after all

Ecology
171

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

Friday, May 01
Evolution
324

How oak trees outwit their predators

Optics & Photonics
662

Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab

General Physics
142

Physicists achieve first-ever 'quadsqueezing' quantum interaction

Plants & Animals
77

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

Other
136

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

Education
15

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

Cell & Microbiology
51

How photosynthetic bacteria pass light along: Two major energy pathways identified

Saturday, May 02
Plants & Animals
126

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

Social Sciences
49

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

Biochemistry
61

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

Astronomy
33

Solar radio bursts reveal hidden magnetic switchbacks near the sun, Parker Solar Probe data suggest

Environment
36

Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows

Environment
25

Disentangling the many factors at play within exposure science

Other
49

Saturday Citations: In spaaa-aaace!

Sunday, May 03
Ecology
89

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

Cell & Microbiology
159

How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions

Ecology
84

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
84

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

Molecular & Computational biology
20

New imaging method maps reversed DNA replication forks in single cells

Molecular & Computational biology
29

UK's national soil database released as open-access repository