Top science news headlines for the week 16

Monday, Apr 13
Ecology
2606

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

Bio & Medicine
1906

A new fruit wash removes pesticides and extends shelf life

Astronomy
155

Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles

Social Sciences
5

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

Economics & Business
11

GenAI could push consumer research toward generic, biased results

Bio & Medicine
127

Ultrasound creates light inside the body, opening a new path to targeted treatments

Paleontology & Fossils
68

Powerful imaging pulls lost ocean life from 445-million-year-old stone and exposes a hidden extinction record

Tuesday, Apr 14
Bio & Medicine
14023

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

Astronomy
333

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

Astronomy
262

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

Earth Sciences
846

Super magma reservoirs discovered beneath Tuscany

Paleontology & Fossils
72

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

General Physics
22

Droplet impacts reveal surprising physics in shear-thickening fluids

Environment
33

Four weeks of 'safe' low-level PFAS exposure in tap water altered embryo development in mice

Wednesday, Apr 15
Ecology
114

Nature might have a universal rhythm

General Physics
493

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

Plants & Animals
36

Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech

Condensed Matter
318

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
70

Autonomy key to happiness, study finds

Astronomy
114

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

Thursday, Apr 16
Earth Sciences
156

Atlantic current system could be weakening faster than expected

Evolution
110

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

Cell & Microbiology
29

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

Evolution
60

Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift

General Physics
259

Looking deep inside quarks: CMS test probes to 10⁻²⁰ meters and finds no inner structure

Astronomy
177

Weighing in on the mystery of the gravitational constant

Friday, Apr 17
Earth Sciences
1250

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

Analytical Chemistry
583

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

Cell & Microbiology
1360

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

Bio & Medicine
39

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

Analytical Chemistry
186

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

Bio & Medicine
131

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

Bio & Medicine
64

How nanomedicine gets inside your cells and treats you from the inside out

Saturday, Apr 18
Social Sciences
3273

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

Earth Sciences
80

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

Condensed Matter
156

Surprising link between metallicity and superconductivity uncovered in twisted trilayer graphene

Mathematics
1498

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

Plants & Animals
87

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

Condensed Matter
31

Physics-based AI model opens new frontiers in dielectric materials exploration

Optics & Photonics
51

Flat optics move toward market with 300-per-second metalens production

Sunday, Apr 19
Earth Sciences
342

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

Materials Science
22

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

Education
40

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

Astronomy
102

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

Other
35

Hollywood, Silicon Valley turn out for the 'Oscars of Science'

General Physics
24

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

Superconductivity
47

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