Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. How will we know if AI is smart enough to do science? New tests gauge whether large language models can use their deep troves of knowledge to actually make discoveries 27 Feb 2026 ByCelina Zhao ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all 20 FEB 2026 BYPERRI THALER &nbs ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. A vanishing star births a black hole—without the fireworks Failed supernova candidate points to a stealthy pathway of stellar collapse 12 FEB 2026 BYDANIEL CLERY 2. Boosting ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. Remote Greek culture has been a genetic ‘island’ for 4500 years New DNA analysis links Deep Maniots to Greece’s premedieval past 6 FEB 2026 BYPERRI THALER 2. These beetles ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. Traces of ancient seafloor cataclysms turn up in the Himalayas Vast undersea eruptions may be undercounted source of extinctions through Earth’s history 30 JAN 2026 BYJAMES DINNEEN ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. Dead cat led to discovery, but officials stress no further spread of H5N1 has been detected 23 JAN 2026 BYJON COHEN & ...
Weekly Headlines ( Excerpts ) 1. Did a vaporized alien planet leave behind a strange iron ‘bar’? Astronomers puzzle over newfound feature within the picturesque Ring Nebula 15 JAN 2026 BYJENNA AHART 2. Wha ...
Weekly Headlines (Excerpts) 1. New hepatitis B drug could help ‘functionally cure’ some patients Scientists welcome GSK announcement that two trials succeeded—even though data are still lacking 9 JAN 20.26 BYJON COHEN ...