Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Solar-powered rainstorms, disease-spreading tornadoes, and more stories you may have missed this week

A roundup of some of our favorite items from the Science Adviser daily newsletter

BY PHIE JACOBS 9 FEB 2024

2. 3D printer creates brain tissue that acts like the real thing

Advance could improve studies of brain development and neurological diseases

BY CLAUDIA LÓPEZ LLOREDA 9 FEB 2024

3. Mutations in same gene allow two different groups of humans to thrive at extreme altitudes

BY PHIE JACOBS 9 FEB 2024

4. Rat poison threatens Italy’s growing wolf population

More than half of dead wolves in study had been exposed to rodenticides

BY GENNARO TOMMA 8 FEB 2024

5. At night, pollution keeps pollinating insects from smelling the flowers

Nitrogen radicals degrade key floral scents, threatening ecosystems and agriculture

BY ELIZABETH PENNISI 8 FEB 2024

6. Gusher of gas deep in mine stokes interest in natural hydrogen

Flow of clean-burning fuel in Albanian mine dwarfs rates of other seeps

BY ERIC HAND 8 FEB 2024

7. News at a glance: Weird early trees, CERN’s next big collider, and protecting U.S. gray wolves

The latest in science and policy

BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 8 FEB 2024

8. How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert islands off Africa?

Home-grown archaeologists reveal how people overcame the challenges of life on the Canary Islands 1800 years ago

BY WARREN CORNWALL 8 FEB 2024

9. Roman-era bone container holds potent, hallucinogenic medicine

Researchers found a cache of black henbane seeds in an outpost far from the empire’s learning centers

BY ANDREW CURRY 7 FEB 2024

10. After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing reefs

“Additional risky measures are now called for, unless we just want to give up,” one scientist says

BY WARREN CORNWALL 7 FEB 2024

11. Researchers discover new kind of magnetism

More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” predicted just a few years ago

BY ZACK SAVITSKY 6 FEB 2024

12. Massive solar farms could provoke rainclouds in the desert

Updrafts from dark solar panels could fuel storms—an alternative to cloud seeding

BY PAUL VOOSEN  6 FEB 2024