Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

1. Perfume scientists tweak cells into having ‘sense of smell’

A study could transform the lab study of olfaction—and may challenge a Nobel-winning hypothesis

10 Oct 2025  By Jennie Erin Smith

2. These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

9 Oct 2025  By Dennis Normile

3. What’s it like to tell someone she won a Nobel Prize?

Science chats with photographer Lindsey Wasson, who captured how Nobel winner Mary Brunkow reacted to life-changing news

9 Oct 2025  By Charles Borst

4. In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

9 Oct 2025  By Taylor Mitchell Brown

5. When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

9 Oct 2025  By Anirban Mukhopadhyay

6. First approved drug for mitochondrial disease could pave way for more treatments

Researchers are testing multiple treatments for the rare genetic conditions

8 Oct 2025  By Mitch Leslie

7. Long-lived gamma ray burst could signal a new kind of cosmic catastrophe

Some theorists think unusual event could be a black hole devouring a star from within

8 Oct 2025  By Daniel Clery

8. Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel

Swiss cheese materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases

8 Oct 2025  By Daniel Clery, Catherine Offord

9. Missing wind from Milky Way’s giant black hole finally found

Astronomers may have glimpsed a long-predicted wind of gas blowing out from Sagittarius A*

7 Oct 2025  By Hannah Richter

10. Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring

Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm

7 Oct 2025  By Zunnash Khan

11. Quantum effects in electrical circuits honored with Physics Nobel

Breakthrough paved the way to many of today’s budding quantum computers

7 Oct 2025  By Adrian Cho

12. Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

6 Oct 2025  By James Dinneen

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Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi revealed how regulatory T cells prevent autoimmune disease

6 Oct 2025  By Catherine Offord