Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1.Billion-dollar NASA mission will provide unprecedented view of ocean life

BY PAUL VOOSEN 2 FEB 2024

2. U.S. panel adds rare brain disease to newborn screening list, after push from families

BY QUINN EASTMAN 2 FEB 2024

3. Does fluoride in drinking water lower IQ? Question looms large in court battle

BY ERIK STOKSTAD 2 FEB 2024

4. Pregnancy dramatically rewires every major organ, monkey study reveals

BY DENNIS NORMILE 1 FEB 2024

5. News at a glance: Mars helicopter’s final flight, grants for U.K. diversity, and a nonopioid pain drug

BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 1 FEB 2024

6. On a remote Pacific island, clues to El Niño’s future are preserved in ancient reefs

BY PAUL VOOSEN 1 FEB 2024

7. Clownfish may be capable of simple math

BY CHRISTA LESTÉ-LASSERRE 1 FEB 2024

8. Why don’t ants always fall for toxic bait? They may learn to avoid it

BY DARREN INCORVAIA 31 JAN 2024

9. Mysterious artifacts suggest modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for millennia

BY ANDREW CURRY 31 JAN 2024

10. Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking

BY ANDREW CURRY  31 JAN 2024

11. Is the world 1.3°C or 1.5°C warmer? Historical ship logs hold answers

BY PAUL VOOSEN 31 JAN 2024

12. Citation cartels help some mathematicians—and their universities—climb the rankings

BY MICHELE CATANZARO 30 JAN 2024

13. When frogs can’t croak to get a mate, they dance

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI 30 JAN 2024

14. In a big bet on science, the U.S. just created 10 new ‘innovation engines’

BY JEFFREY MERVIS 29 JAN 2024

15. Alzheimer’s disease may have been transmitted in now-banned hormone treatments

BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKEL 29 JAN 2024

16. Sighting of newborn great white shark ‘unlike anything we had ever seen before’

BY FREDA KREIER 29 JAN 2024

17. A fly enters a virtual reality chamber, and insect science may never be the same

BY PHIE JACOBS 29 JAN 2024

18. ‘Landmark paper’ shows why ice age Europeans wore jewelry

BY BRIDGET ALEX 29 JAN 2024

19. How to spot a deepfake—and prevent it from causing political chaos

BY SARA REARDON 29 JAN 2024

20. An electrifying new ironmaking method could slash carbon emissions

BY ROBERT F. SERVICE 5 FEB 2024

21. Direct approach to laser-powered fusion promises simpler power production

BY DANIEL CLERY 5 FEB 2024