Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. NASA opens door to cooperation with China on Moon rock research

BY DENNIS NORMILE  |  7 DEC  2023

2. Biden wants NIH to have ‘march-in’ power to override patent rights for high-priced drugs

BY JOCELYN KAISER  |  7 DEC  2023

3. Birds that lead people to honey recognize local calls from their human helpers

BY MITCH LESLIE  |  7 DEC  2023

4.  ‘Not dumb creatures.’ Livestock surprise scientists with their complex, emotional minds

BY DAVID GRIMM  |  7 DEC  2023

5.  Bacteria are evenly matched in swimming contests, no matter their size

BY KRISTEL TJANDRA  |  7 DEC  2023

6.  News at a glance: Climate damage fund, a Palestinian physicist killed, and a dismissal following a Harvard gift

BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF  |  7 DEC  2023

7.  NIH’s new chief, Monica Bertagnolli, wants greater ‘equity’ in biomedical research

BY JOCELYN KAISER  |  6 DEC  2023

8.  Not all organs age the same. ‘Older’ ones may predict your risk of disease

BY CATHERINE OFFORD  |  6 DEC  2023

9.  mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence of harm

BY GRETCHEN VOGEL  |  6 DEC  2023

10.  The New England Journal of Medicine kicks off a historical series looking at its troubled past

BY RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA  |  6 DEC  2023

11.  Archaeology society votes to ban photos of Indigenous burial offerings

BY LIZZIE WADE  |  6 DEC  2023

12. Locusts raised in spinning centrifuge have stronger skeletons

BY PHIE JACOBS  |  5 DEC  2023

13. Tumor-killing viruses score rare success in late-stage trial

BY MITCH LESLIE  |  5 DEC  2023

14. Leading scholarly database listed hundreds of papers from ‘hijacked’ journals

BY JEFFREY BRAINARD  |  5 DEC  2023

15. DNA recovered from polar bear snowprints could shed light on elusive species

BY SUSAN COSIER  |  5 DEC  2023

16. Studies that expose bats to SARS-CoV-2 could help gauge future pandemic risks

BY JON COHEN  |  4 DEC  2023

17. Patagonian people were riding horses long before Europeans arrived

BY ANDREW CURRY  8 DEC  2023

18. A ‘living skin’ is protecting the Great Wall of China from erosion

BY ETHAN FREEDMAN  8 DEC  2023

19. First-of-its-kind tyrannosaur fossil reveals what younglings ate

BY RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA  8 DEC  2023