Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)
1. Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
24 OCT 2025 BY CHRIS BARANIUK
Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions
24 OCT 2025 BY PAUL VOOSEN
3. How NSF hopes to keep Antarctic scientists afloat without an icebreaker
Ending Palmer lease is one of many belt-tightening moves amid budget uncertainty
24 OCT 2025 BY JEFFREY MERVIS
4. At futuristic meeting, AIs took the lead in producing and reviewing all the studies
Organizers aim to tune AI to help accelerate science
23 OCT 2025 BY JEFFREY BRAINARD
5. Can the Deadliest Catch crab fishery survive warming seas?
After a brutal heat wave, scientists race to predict how Bering Sea snow crabs will cope with climate change
23 OCT 2025 BY WARREN CORNWALL
6. Fat-chomping enzyme that ‘moonlights’ as gene regulator could point to obesity treatments
Hormone-sensitive lipase works in the nucleus to keep fat cells healthy, new study suggests
23 OCT 2025 BY ZUNNASH KHAN
7. New recipe improves creation of cells that could fight most autoimmune diseases
Nobel laureate makes regulatory T cells that last longer in the body, boosting clinical hopes
22 OCT 2025 BY CATHERINE OFFORD
8. Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides
Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops
22 OCT 2025 BY ANDREW CURRY
9. ‘I fear we are sitting on a time bomb.’ Scientists debate mass distribution of antibiotics in Africa
Prophylactic use of azithromycin saves vulnerable children’s lives, but could trigger antibiotic resistance
21 OCT 2025 BY GRETCHEN VOGEL
10. ‘It’s like a horror movie pregnancy.’ Researcher studies maggots—by letting them eat him
Science chats with wildlife epidemiologist Tony Goldberg about what he’s learned from becoming a meal for parasites
21 OCT 2025 BY RACHEL NUWER
11. A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment
Patients who got shots of mRNA before starting a type of cancer immunotherapy lived much longer
20 OCT 2025 BY PHIE JACOBS
12. Stranded coral boulders point to a medieval tsunami in the Caribbean
Study pinpoints likely date for a massive earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench—and highlights an underappreciated regional hazard
20 OCT 2025 BY KATHERINE KORNEI
13. Lab mice can now have periods like humans
Studies of rodents with a menstrual on/off switch could help people with endometriosis and other disorders
20 OCT 2025 BY HOLLY BARKER
14. Beetle compound is so valuable insects eat bird poop to get it
To obtain the toxic chemical cantharidin, insects suck beetles’ blood—and even munch on their digested remains
20 OCT 2025 BY RICHARD PALLARDY
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