Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1.  A treaty to prepare the world for the next pandemic hangs in the balance

The WHO Pandemic Agreement hopes to improve global equity and avoid mistakes made during COVID-19

 BY JON COHEN  15 MAR 2024

2. Canine peer review, stolen toxins, and more stories you might have missed this week

A roundup of some of our favorite items from the ScienceAdviser daily newsletter

BY PHIE JACOBS  15 MAR 2024

3. Watch out! This colorful bird raises a nest of cannibals

Eurasian hoopoes raise extra chicks so they can be eaten by their siblings

 BY SOUMYA SAGAR  15 MAR 2024

4. Men psychology researchers can’t seem to remember their women colleagues

Men’s implicit bias may contribute to the gender gap in the field, new study highlights

 BY RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA  14 MAR 2024

5. ‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community

“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary

 BY PHIE JACOBS  14 MAR 2024

6. ‘Cold blob’ of Arctic meltwater may be causing European heat waves

Study identifies chain of events linking Arctic warming and extreme European weather

BY ELI KINTISCH  14 MAR 2024

7. Are your earliest childhood memories still lurking in your mind—or gone forever?

Studies of “infantile amnesia” find that memory works differently in the developing brain

BY SARA REARDON 14 MAR 2024

8. Some of our key gut microbes likely came from cows—and we’re losing them

Urbanization and the rise of processed foods may be limiting our guts’ microbial diversity

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  14 MAR 2024

9. We ‘baby talk’ our dogs. So why don’t we ‘baby face’ them?

Study finds a key difference in the way we coo to our infants and our pets

BY CHRISTA LESTÉ-LASSERRE  14 MAR 2024

10. On its third try, Starship rocket flies through space but fails during re-entry

NASA hails SpaceX’s progress in developing biggest rocket ever

 BY MICHAEL GRESHKO 14 MAR 2024

11. Sensor protein explains how mice—and maybe people—know it’s cold

Previously identified in worms, a protein on nerve cells helps mammals sense temperatures down to 0°C

BY ALEJANDRA MANJARREZ  13 MAR 2024

12.  Should doctors screen all kids for type 1 diabetes?

Early studies suggest antibody testing can prevent complications and delay disease, but some worry about psychological toll

BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKEL  13 MAR 2024

13. ‘Smart’ fiber-optic cables on the sea floor will detect earthquakes, tsunamis, and global warming

Scientists’ push to add sensors to cables pays off in Atlantic and Pacific oceans

BY PAUL VOOSEN   13 MAR 2024

14.  Some toothed whales—like humans—go through menopause. And it may help them live longer

Analysis of 32 whale species shows the trait may have evolved to let older whales help take care of younger ones

 BY KATHERINE IRVING 13 MAR 2024

15. Ladybug becomes powerful foe after ‘stealing’ toxins from invasive insect

Despite having no history of coevolution, Australian beetles in Spain can store and use defensive chemicals from an invasive American species

BY PHIE JACOBS  12 MAR 2024

16. Jupiter’s ocean moon may be dead inside

Long heralded as a promising place to look for life, Europa’s sea floor may be geologically inert

BY PAUL VOOSEN  12 MAR 2024

17. Amazing diversity of today’s ants tied to rise of flowering plants

The earliest ants went extinct, but more generalist species blossomed by taking advantage of the spread of plants that flower

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  11 MAR 2024

18. Flirting female frogs blink to beckon potential princes

The behavior, once thought to be unique to primates, appears to serve as an amphibian social signal

BY PHIE JACOBS  11 MAR 2024