Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

 1. Global carbon emissions will soon flatten or decline

With China’s surge in renewable energy, greenhouse gases are reaching a turning point

21 NOV 2025  BY PAUL VOOSEN 

2. Airplane contrails may not be the climate villain once feared

Studies raise questions about the benefits of adjusting flight paths to minimize heat-trapping clouds

 21 NOV 2025  BY PAUL VOOSEN 

3. Pigeons sense Earth’s magnetic field in an entirely new way

Specialized hair cells pick electric currents induced by magnetism

 20 NOV 2025  BY ERIK STOKSTAD 

4. Why does biology keep building things out of tiles?

Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics

 20 NOV 2025  BY CELINA ZHAO 

5. Watch superstretchy bloodworms turn themselves inside out

The marine worm’s unusually structured proboscis could inspire future soft-bodied robots

 19 NOV 2025  BY JACK TAMISIEA 

6. Curious gravitational wave may hint at primordial black holes—or just be noise

Astronomers approach unusual observation with caution and excitement

 18 NOV 2025  BY ADRIAN CHO 

7. Lab-grown models of human brains are advancing rapidly. Can ethics keep pace?

Whether neural organoids feel pain or should be placed in animals are among the questions swirling around biology’s hot new technology

 18 NOV 2025  BY MITCH LESLIE 

8. Radar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catch

Study of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle

 18 NOV 2025  BY KATHERINE KORNEI 

9. High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future

With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy

 18 NOV 2025  BY PAUL VOOSEN 

10. AI spots ‘ghost’ signatures of ancient life on Earth

Find could revolutionize search for early life on our planet and elsewhere in the cosmos

 17 NOV 2025  BY ROBERT F. SERVICE 

11. Have wild wolves learned to use tools?

Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?

 17 NOV 2025  BY PHIE JACOBS 

12. This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen

Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom

 17 NOV 2025  BY PHIE JACOBS