Top science news headlines for the week 41

Monday, Oct 07
Archaeology
643

Sacrificial burial confirms Scythians' eastern origins

Planetary Sciences
334

Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable

Astronomy
238

The Milky Way might be part of an even larger structure than Laniakea

Astronomy
223

New study eases concerns over possible 'doomsday' asteroid swarm

Archaeology
207

Archaeologists use metabolites in bones to identify smokers from centuries ago

Analytical Chemistry
205

Chemists use light to replace an oxygen atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule

General Physics
175

Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe

Tuesday, Oct 08
General Physics
713

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries that enabled machine learning

Earth Sciences
453

Researchers link El Niño to accelerated ice loss in tropics

Archaeology
429

With advanced scanning technique, confiscated Iron Age Iranian swords proven to be pastiches

Plants & Animals
320

Study suggests elephants remember zookeepers after many years

Plants & Animals
230

Stressed bees make pessimistic choices and may experience emotion-like states, new research suggests

Archaeology
200

Experimental archaeology sheds light on skill and technique in Bronze Age spear combat

Astrobiology
186

Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth

Wednesday, Oct 09
Mathematics
3207

In double breakthrough, mathematician helps solve two long-standing problems

Paleontology & Fossils
534

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug

Optics & Photonics
280

Quantum physicists tap into entanglement to improve the precision of optical atomic clocks

Planetary Sciences
183

Jupiter's Great Red Spot shows unexpected size changes

Astronomy
182

Black hole destroys star, goes after another

Cell & Microbiology
156

Microbial marvels: Study finds 'untapped biodiversity' in the bathroom, on your toothbrush and showerhead

Archaeology
138

Fossils and fires: Insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia

Thursday, Oct 10
Archaeology
496

Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark

Earth Sciences
461

Catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than previously thought, say climate scientists

Astronomy
343

Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models

Astronomy
309

'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem

Materials Science
306

Inspired by Spider-Man, researchers recreate web-slinging technology

Plants & Animals
225

Researchers find dragonfly species with darker wings have evolved to withstand heat and attract partners

Earth Sciences
172

Geologist helps track lead pollution in a Tibetan glacier, revealing global impact of human activities

Friday, Oct 11
Evolution
1424

Evolution in real time: Scientists predict—and witness—evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment

Plants & Animals
407

Gazing at your dog can connect your brains, research suggests

Optics & Photonics
321

Harnessing quantum principles: Phased arrays within phased arrays for smarter, greener indoor optical wireless networks

Condensed Matter
258

Physicists reveal nonlinear transport induced by quantum geometry in planar altermagnets

Astronomy
201

'Inside-out' galaxy growth observed in the early universe

Astrobiology
175

Mars analog stations investigate lichen biodiversity during simulated missions

Plants & Animals
167

One-third of European plant species could be in trouble due to declining seed disperser populations

Saturday, Oct 12
Earth Sciences
223

Ancient climate analysis reveals unknown global processes

Planetary Sciences
219

'Killer electrons': Lightning storms play cosmic pinball with space weather

Optics & Photonics
186

Researchers develop a laser that produces the strongest ultra-short laser pulses to date

Ecology
130

Full moon hazard: 50% rise in wildlife vehicle collisions during moonlit nights

Quantum Physics
124

Google's sycamore quantum chip beats classical computers running random circuit sampling

Other
102

Saturday Citations: All that sparkles is plastic; woke tree diversity; the gravitational basin in which we reside

Ecology
76

AI empowers iNaturalist to map California plants with unprecedented precision

Sunday, Oct 13
Archaeology
377

Volunteers help identify hundreds of undiscovered prehistoric barrows

Space Exploration
172

In a first, Starship megarocket booster caught by SpaceX's 'chopsticks'

Evolution
132

One of the earliest examples of a winged seed found in a mine in China

Plants & Animals
119

Gibbon dances provide model to investigate the use of gestural signals in primates

Bio & Medicine
105

Novel nanoparticle therapy targets fat absorption to combat obesity

Astronomy
88

Study investigates very metal-poor star HE 2315−4240

Superconductivity
77

Novel protocols for estimating Hamiltonian parameters of a superconducting quantum processor could improve precision