Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’

BY MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ORFILA  |  29 NOV

2. Astronomers stunned by six-planet system frozen in time

Undisturbed family of “sub-Neptunes” in rhythmic orbits could hold clues to planet formation

BY DANIEL CLERY  |  29 NOV

3. Explainer: What’s behind FDA’s concern that a cancer-fighting cell therapy can also cause the disease?

BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKEL  |  29 NOV

4. Materials-predicting AI from DeepMind could revolutionize electronics, batteries, and solar cells

BY ROBERT F. SERVICE  |  29 NOV

5. XPRIZE on aging will award up to $101 million for therapies that restore vigor to the elderly

BY MATT FUCHS  |  29 NOV

6. With winged legs, orchid mantis sets gliding record

BY ERIK STOKSTAD  |  28 NOV

7. This may be one of the last giant rats of Vangunu

BY ERIK STOKSTAD  |  27 NOV

8. Tiny ‘anthrobots’ built from human cells could help heal the body

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  |  30 NOV

9. Cheaper microscope could bring protein mapping technique to the masses

BY ERIC HAND  |  27 NOV

10. ‘Toxic bait’ from Indian pitcher plants lures hungry insects to their doom

BY CHRISTIE WILCOX  |  30 NOV

11. Climate crisis sparks effort to coax oceans to suck up carbon dioxide

BY WARREN CORNWALL  |  30 NOV

12. Scientists thought they understood maize’s origins. They were missing something big

BY LIZZIE WADE  |  30 NOV

13. This Antarctic penguin sleeps 11 hours a day—a few seconds at a time

BY SEAN CUMMINGS  |  30 NOV

14. World’s oldest forts upend idea that farming alone led to complex societies

BY ANDREW CURRY  |  30 NOV

15. UK Biobank releases half a million whole-genome sequences for biomedical research

BY CATHERINE OFFORD  |  29 NOV

16.  Amid Congo’s deadliest mpox outbreak, a new worry: virus has become sexually transmissible

BY JON COHEN  |  29 NOV