Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus?
By Robert F. Service | Wed, 14 Jun 2023 

2. Ancient humans traveled half the world to Asia before main migration out of Africa
By Michael Price | Tue, 13 Jun 2023

3. ‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed
By Robert F. Service | Tue, 13 Jun 2023

4. NIH working group calls for fewer—but better paid—postdocs
By Katie Langin | Mon, 12 Jun 2023

5. In Africa, doubts about vaccines grew during pandemic, survey finds
By Munyaradzi Makoni | Mon, 12 Jun 2023

6. In a twist, beach grass could make dunes more vulnerable to storms
By Erik Stokstad | Thu, 15 Jun 2023

7. Swabbing C-section babies with mom’s microbes can restore healthy bacteria
By Claudia Lopez Lloreda | Thu, 15 Jun 2023

8. Rare blue dye faces risky path from rainforest to product
By Kai Kupferschmidt | Thu, 15 Jun 2023

9. Sports-related concussions not proved to cause later brain disease, says expert group
By Meredith Wadman | Wed, 14 Jun 2023

10. Humanity’s groundwater pumping has altered Earth’s tilt
By Warren Cornwall | Fri, 16 Jun 2023

11. ‘Quietly revolutionary’ plan would shake up the way U.K. universities are evaluated
By Cathleen O’Grady | Fri, 16 Jun 2023