Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)
1. Tree rings from ancient coffins offer clues to Earth’s past
Wood from gravesites can help reconstruct historic temperatures, floods, and droughts
30 Oct 2025 By Taylor Mitchell Brown
2. Chemical additive slashes carbon emissions when creating synthetic fuels
Advance in Fischer-Tropsch process could make coal-to-liquid plants cleaner
30 Oct 2025 By Robert F. Service
3. Can AI capture the mind-boggling complexity of a human cell?
Researchers are competing to make “virtual cells” that could transform biomedicine by predicting gene activity and more
30 Oct 2025 By Mitch Leslie
4. New evidence? No problem. Chimps can weigh conflicting clues, just like humans
Study is first to suggest our closest relatives think about their own thoughts
30 Oct 2025 By Cathleen O’Grady
5. How one of the world’s rarest and most valuable gemstones gets its vivid colors
Scientists finally solve mystery of ammolite’s brilliant reds, greens, and blues
30 Oct 2025 By Phie Jacobs
6. Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms
Study finds fresh evidence for Nanotyrannus, a dinosaur whose existence has long been debated
30 Oct 2025 By Jack Tamisiea
7. Vaccine protects people from paratyphoid fever in a ‘human challenge’ study
Volunteers who swallowed disease-causing bacteria were less likely to get sick after an oral vaccine
29 Oct 2025 By Martin Enserink
8. Aquarium hijinks provide strongest evidence yet that sharks love to play
Study hints at a deeper intelligence—and a need for enrichment in captivity
29 Oct 2025 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre
9. To thwart food poisoning, tiny needles could inject bacteria-slaying viruses into your meal
Experimental patches on meat, fruits, and vegetables can destroy up to 99.9% of bacteria
29 Oct 2025 By Celina Zhao
10 Alien worlds may be able to make their own water
Ocean planets could arise from rocks reacting with thick hydrogen atmospheres, lab experiments show
29 Oct 2025 By Robin George Andrews
11. Innovative antivenom is a ‘potential game changer’ for snakebites
Synthetic cocktail of llama and alpaca “nanobodies” protected mice from venoms of 17 snakes
29 Oct 2025 By Christie Wilcox
12. AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know
Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model
28 Oct 2025 By Celina Zhao
13. Man’s pig kidney fails just shy of setting record
The xenotransplant, from a gene-edited pig, had survived for nearly 9 months in Tim Andrews
27 Oct 2025 By Jon Cohen
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