Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)
1. Mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman finally deciphered
Cracking the main subtype of the Dhofari script could reveal “an entirely new page of the history of Arabia”
11 JUL 2025 BY SOUMYA SAGAR
2. China tops the world in artificial intelligence publications, database analysis reveals
The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers
11 JUL 2025 BY DENNIS NORMILE
3. Effort to revive New Zealand’s extinct moa stirs controversy
Suggestions that nation’s Indigenous Māori wholeheartedly back project draws criticism
11 JUL 2025 BY VERONIKA MEDUNA
4. Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper
Phalanx of instruments scrutinize 3I/ATLAS for clues about planet formation elsewhere in the galaxy 11 JUL 2025 BY ADAM MANN
5. U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation
Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt
10 JUL 2025 BY ADRIAN CHO
Adults in the ICU often don’t know about the genetic diagnoses related to their symptoms, DNA sequencing study shows
10 JUL 2025 BY ANNIKA INAMPUDI
7. How hydrogen-leaking ‘fairy circles’ might form
Understanding the origins of mysterious seeps could help prospectors extract natural hydrogen fuel
10 JUL 2025 BY HANNAH RICHTER
8. AI challenge to find lost Amazonian civilizations draws critics
Scientists, ethicists, and officials worry the OpenAI-sponsored contest sidesteps archaeological norms
8 JUL 2025 BY SOFIA MOUTINHO
9. Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a fossil first
New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants
9 JUL 2025 BY TAYLOR MITCHELL BROWN
10. Record-setting recovery of ancient protein used to identify extinct rhino relative
Scientists sequence 20-million-year-old enamel protein from teeth fossils preserved in Arctic cold
9 JUL 2025 BY MICHAEL PRICE
11. Elephants gesture to signal what they want—just like us
New experiments show elephants use a wide range of movements to express their desires
8 JUL 2025 BY PHIE JACOBS
12. Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators
A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits
8 JUL 2025 BY ANNIKA INAMPUDI
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