Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1.Billionaire launches plagiarism detection effort against MIT president and all its faculty

BY MEREDITH WADMAN, JOCELYN KAISER  8 JAN 2024

2. ‘Magical’ abilities of water-striding insects could inspire new aquatic robots

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  8 JAN 2024

3. Strong monsoons may have carved a path for early humans out of Africa

BY BRIDGET ALEX  8 JAN 2024

4. Massive study of dog aging likely to lose funding

BY MITCH LESLIE 8 JAN 2024

5. Artificial intelligence may benefit from talking to itself

BY MATTHEW HUTSON  8 JAN 2024

6. Astronomers solve mystery of ‘odd radio circle’ in deep space

BY DANIEL CLERY  8 JAN 2024

7. Mysterious seismic swarm foreshadowed monster Japan earthquake

BY DENNIS NORMILE  |  9 JAN

8. Continental shelf maps could add Egypt-size area to U.S. territory

BY DAVID MALAKOFF  |  9 JAN

9. First brain organoids grown from fetal tissue offer window on development

BY SARA REARDON  |  9 JAN

10. 2023 was the hottest year on record—and even hotter than expected

BY PAUL VOOSEN  |  9 JAN

11. Wisconsin bill to restrict pathogen studies worries scientists

BY JOCELYN KAISER 12 JAN 2024

12. Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI 12 JAN 2024

13. Do prints from two different fingers belong to the same person? AI can tell

BY BENJAMIN POWERS 12 JAN 2024 

14. EPA scraps plan to end mammal testing by 2035

BY DAVID GRIMM 12 JAN 2024 

15. Bacteria stitch exotic building blocks into novel proteins

BY ROBERT F. SERVICE 11 JAN 2024 

16. Shark kills rise to more than 100 million per year—despite antifinning laws

BY SEAN CUMMINGS 11 JAN 2024 

17. News at a glance: Moon probe failure, sparing Curie’s lab, and a departing Hawaiian telescope

BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 11 JAN 2024 

18. Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago

BY LIZZIE WADE 11 JAN 2024 

19. This is the oldest skin ever found

BY PHIE JACOBS 11 JAN 2024 

20. Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID’s future

BY JON COHEN 11 JAN 2024 

21. Tectonic plate under Tibet may be splitting in two

BY MAYA WEI-HAAS 10 JAN 2024 

22. We may finally know why the world’s largest primate went extinct

BY DENNIS NORMILE 10 JAN 2024 

23. California grizzlies weren’t as giant and threatening as people once thought

BY RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA 9 JAN 2024