Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Should scientists include their race, gender, or other personal details in papers?

BY RACHEL ZAMZOW|  1 NOV

2. Heart-brain link offers new potential explanation for fainting

BY ROBIN DONOVAN   1 NOV

3. Where did shoulders come from? Ancient fish reveal joint’s evolution

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  1 NOV

4. The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret

BY ADRIAN CHO   1 NOV

5. Why don’t fish have tonsils? They have a good alternative, study suggests

BY MITCH LESLIE|  1 NOV

6. First plasma fired up at world’s largest fusion reactor

BY DENNIS NORMILE|  31 OCT

7. Pressured by lawsuits, EPA toughens pesticide rules to protect endangered species

BY ERIK STOKSTAD | 31 OCT

8. A chikungunya vaccine is nearing approval. Who will get it?

BY JON COHEN   30 OCT

 9. Rats can ‘imagine’ places they’ve previously visited

BY CATHERINE OFFORD  2 NOV 2023

10. The Atlantic is being ringed with tiny sensors in an ambitious effort to track climate change

BY APRIL REESE  2 NOV 2023 

11. Plans to ‘rewild’ Argentina spark fierce scientific debate

BY KATA KARÁTH  2 NOV 2023

12. In Peru, a 20-year study charted Amazon forests—and revealed how warming has changed them

BY BARBARA FRASER 2 NOV 2023 

13. Synthetic ‘super melanin’ speeds skin repair

BY ROBERT F. SERVICE 2 NOV 2023

14. As student and postdoc unions proliferate, academia is scrambling to adapt

BY KATIE LANGIN 3 NOV 2023

15. ‘Why are we naming birds after people?’ Behind the plan to scrap many bird names

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI  3 NOV 2023