Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Ancient marriage traditions—and politics—revealed in giant family trees built from DNA

BY ANDREW CURRY  5 OCT 2023

2. The risks of radioactive waste water release

BY JIM SMITH, NIGEL MARKS, TONY IRWIN   05 OCT 2023

3.  New footprint dates bolster claim that humans lived in Americas during Ice Age

BY LIZZIE WADE  5 OCT 2023

4. Laser mapping reveals hidden structures in Amazon—with hints at thousands more

BY RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGA   5 OCT 2023

5. Immunity-enhancing cocktail protects mice against multiple hospital germs

BY CATHERINE OFFORD   4 OCT 2023

6. Study of 17,000 years of fish fossils reveals rapid evolution

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI   4 OCT 2023

7. Creators of quantum dots, used in TV displays and cell studies, win chemistry Nobel

BY DANIEL CLERY, SAM KEAN   4 OCT 2023

8. Puzzling objects found far beyond Neptune hint at second Kuiper belt

BY PAUL VOOSEN   3 OCT 2023

9. Monarch butterfly is not endangered, conservation authority decides

BY DENNIS NORMILE   3 OCT 2023

10. How do cats purr? New finding challenges long-held assumptions

BY PHIE JACOBS   3 OCT 2023

11. Sculptors of the shortest flashes of light win physics Nobel

BY ADRIAN CHO, DANIEL CLERY   3 OCT 2023

12. Laser-fusion experiment squeezes out even more energy

BY DANIEL CLERY   2 OCT 2023

13. World Health Organization endorses much anticipated second malaria vaccine

BY GRETCHEN VOGEL   2 OCT 2023 

14. mRNA discovery that paved way for COVID-19 vaccines wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

BY CATHERINE OFFORD, JON COHEN   2 OCT 2023

15. Should you pick Novavax’s COVID-19 shot over mRNA options?

BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKEL    6 OCT 2023

16. Meet the world’s least picky insect—a spreader of deadly crop disease

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI    6 OCT 2023