Top science news headlines for the week 24

Monday, Jun 08
Earth Sciences
1770

California's tectonic stress has reached record level, earthquake model reveals

Optics & Photonics
290

Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

Environment
8

Toward standardized microplastics monitoring in rivers

Cell & Microbiology
130

Bacteria can learn and form memories without a brain

Social Sciences
5

Q&A: Expert discusses 250 years of sports in the United States

General Physics
152

Newfound sound wave scattering rule may lead to less bulky, more effective soundproofing

Plants & Animals
323

Critically endangered Chinese pangolin found in Nepal's sacred forest

Tuesday, Jun 09
Evolution
235

A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds

Environment
51

The fifth national climate assessment: Report shows change is here, but there is hope

Quantum Physics
33

Physicists harness potential of quantum phase transitions

Earth Sciences
8

Real-time data assimilation system outperforms flood early warning system

Archaeology
109

Oldest Maya Long Count calendar date may reveal how royalty turned time into power

Astronomy
65

Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster

Bio & Medicine
11

Q&A: Combating antibiotic resistance with nanotechnology, robotics and AI

Wednesday, Jun 10
Archaeology
240

Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution, argues archaeologist

Plants & Animals
35

Is your dog a lefty? New 'Doginburgh' test captures paw preference

Bio & Medicine
17

Acidic nanoparticles target Parkinson's at cellular source

Environment
10

'Cool Routes' finds cooler walking paths with hourly forecasts and street-level shade data

Polymers
26

Why plastic lingers: Water chemistry slows nature's cleanup

Ecology
49

Newfound 'whale necropolis' reveals 5.3 million years of seafloor life

Biotechnology
6

New combined spore trapping and DNA sequencing technology tracks fungicide resistance in grain crops

Thursday, Jun 11
Ecology
373

First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet

Cell & Microbiology
1290

Scientists discover collagen, the human body's most abundant protein, is liquid-like inside cells

Space Exploration
132

How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon

Astrobiology
94

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

General Physics
366

Collapsing stars could spawn mini-universes, offering new path to gravastars

Archaeology
99

Ancient DNA from Tuscan wells reveals origins of modern wine

Plants & Animals
648

Why restoring rivers isn't enough: New research shows fish are evolving in response to human-made rivers

Friday, Jun 12
General Physics
1986

Scientist creates 'mini‑universe' to measure time without a clock

General Physics
317

Why birds seem to ignore Newton: New theory could sharpen models of flocks, crowds and cells

Archaeology
523

Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society

Molecular & Computational biology
30

Slime molds make decisions using internal fluid flows

Space Exploration
49

Science fiction? Musk's lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say

Education
11

Study offers guidance to schools looking to create outdoor education programs

General Physics
394

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Saturday, Jun 13
Molecular & Computational biology
411

Dogs and humans are more alike than we thought, study finds

Astronomy
809

South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe

Plants & Animals
88

Harmonic radar tags reveal how mosquitoes move through fields and parkland

General Physics
190

Supercomputer illuminates subatomic particle that helps hold matter together

Environment
57

Ocean monitoring is in trouble: It's up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world's deep‑sea ecosystems

Earth Sciences
317

How directing water flows in the landscape could support groundwater and surface water streams

Astrobiology
114

David Kipping has new take on the existence of advanced life in the universe and the numbers are not encouraging

Sunday, Jun 14
Nanophysics
203

When less is more: Scaling law explains why ultrathin materials get stronger as they get thinner

Biochemistry
157

Burned as waste for years, this overlooked plant material is poised to reshape how nylon gets made

Archaeology
303

Rare 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes unearthed at Inca coastal site

Nanomaterials
23

Chemical impurities make carbon surfaces superslippery, researchers find

Archaeology
41

Canary Island relics offer new clues into how North African cultures adapted to ocean living

Astrobiology
49

Astrochemical model digs into the universe's missing sulfur

Molecular & Computational biology
15

Standard tests do not always detect all gluten residues in barley beer