Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

 1. How fungus-farming termites control weeds

Termites enlist microbes to defend their crops from undesirable fungi

25 Sep 2025  By Erik Stokstad 

2. In a first, a gene therapy seems to slow Huntington disease

Small study suggests uniQure drug. could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder

24 Sep 2025  By Jocelyn Kaiser 

3. A ‘solar bump’ could help data centers recover wasted energy

Solar water heaters could recoup 8% of the electricity needs of AI computer farms

24 Sep 2025  By Hannah Richter 

4. Storied atom-smasher that makes tiny Big Bangs wraps up mission

For 26 years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has re-created the quark-gluon plasma that filled the infant universe

24 Sep 2025  By Adrian Cho 

5. Thousands of quakes struck a major Greek volcano, mapping the plumbing beneath it

A “crisis” that rocked the island of Santorini may reveal a shared magma system between two volcanoes with explosive histories

24 Sep 2025  By Evan Howell 

6. Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research

Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines

23 Sep 2025  By Celina Zhao 

7. Even subzero parts of the Arctic are thawing. Ancient salt is the culprit

Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic

22 Sep 2025  By Tim Appenzeller 

8. Researchers customize AI tools at global ‘hackathon’

More than 1200 scientists and developers explore how large language models can be applied to materials science and chemistry

19 Sep 2025  By Zack Savitsky