Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

 1. A notorious performance-enhancing hormone helps tumors hide from the immune system

Blocking erythropoietin’s effects on macrophages fights cancer in mice

 24 APR 2025  BY MITCH LESLIE 

2. ‘A huge honor’: China reveals the foreign scientists awarded rare lunar samples

Seven teams in six nations to get lunar material brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission

 24 APR 2025  BY DENNIS NORMILE 

3. Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’

Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old

 24 APR 2025  BY ALEXA ROBLES-GIL 

4. Paying fishers to release sharks could backfire

Proposed conservation strategy led to more hammerhead shark deaths than usual, study finds

 23 APR 2025  BY ERIK STOKSTAD 

5. How much climate damage do polluters actually cause? New method comes up with price tag

Approach might help plaintiffs win compensation from top emitters

 23 APR 2025  BY WARREN CORNWALL 

6. Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions

Culture with biblical roots spread across the ancient world, but its people did not

 23 APR 2025  BY ANDREW CURRY 

7. Massive pea study solves last genetic riddles of famed friar

DNA sequencing reveals basis of traits studied by Gregor Mendel—and gives breeders new ways to improve the crop

 23 APR 2025  BY ERIK STOKSTAD 

8. ‘Terrible crocodile’ was not related to modern alligators

A new analysis finds supersize crocodilians evolved more frequently than scientists once thought

 23 APR 2025  BY JAKE BUEHLER 

9. Ultracool microscopy yields a sharper look at proteins

After years of frustration, researchers learn how to sharpen molecular images with liquid helium

 21 APR 2025  BY ROBERT F. SERVICE