Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)
1. Gold-covered hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass
Spiky projections on plant matter may act like “drain snakes,” helping felines dislodge wads of fur
12 Sep 2025 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre
2. Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports
Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text
12 Sep 2025 By Jeffrey Brainard
3. Weird rings of DNA fuel cancers. This scientist leads the effort to target them
Paul Mischel and others are testing therapies for rogue genetic loops that drive tumor evolution and growth
11 Sep 2025 By Elie Dolgin
4. Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time
The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them
11 Sep 2025 By Rita Aksenfeld
5. Great Britain’s economy didn’t completely tank after Romans left, countering conventional wisdom
“Completely surprising” discovery based on ancient pollutants suggests mining and smelting continued apace for centuries
11 Sep 2025 By Ann Gibbons
6. ‘Incredible’ fossil reveals earliest relative of lizards and their kin
Paleontologists use x-rays to reconstruct ancient reptile bones too fragile to remove from rock
10 Sep 2025 By Jake Buehler
7. Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking
Observation confirms that a black hole’s area can only grow and never shrink
10 Sep 2025 By Adrian Cho
8. The trick to blowing the perfect dandelion
The umbrellalike tufts resist downward tugs but slip free when lifted up into the wind
9 Sep 2025 By Celina Zhao
9. Tiger hologram created with technique from early cinema experiment
“Holostereosynthesis” can make holograms out of anything with layers
9 Sep 2025 By Celina Zhao
10. Remembering David Baltimore, a titan who transformed biology and spoke bluntly
The influential Nobel laureate ran institutions, trained future scientific leaders, survived a scandal, and shaped policy
9 Sep 2025 By Jon Cohen
11. Microscopic robots navigate ‘artificial spacetimes’
Light-guided bots are steered through mazes like spacecraft tugged by gravity
9 Sep 2025 By Rachel Berkowitz
12. Thawing permafrost is turning Arctic rivers orange—spelling trouble for fish
In Alaska’s Salmon River, leached metals reach levels that are toxic for aquatic life
8 Sep 2025 By Warren Cornwall
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