Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Science-free schooling for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox draws fire
By Michele Chabin | Fri, 30 Jun 2023

2. Is exercise actually good for the brain?
By Claudia Lopez Lloreda | Fri, 30 Jun 2023

3. Embattled physicist files patent for unprecedented ambient superconductor
By Robert F. Service | Fri, 30 Jun 2023

4. Watch slow-motion tongues offer a snapshot of evolution
By Kevin McLean | Fri, 30 Jun 2023

5. AI? Brain manipulation? WHO’s new chief scientist aims to anticipate global challenges
By Kai Kupferschmidt | Thu, 29 Jun 2023

6. Winning a Nobel Prize may be bad for your productivity
By David Shultz | Thu, 29 Jun 2023

7. News at a glance: Muscular dystrophy therapy, lab-grown chicken, and humans’ toll on wildlife
By Science News Staff | Thu, 29 Jun 2023

8. Long-sought hum of gravitational waves from giant black holes heard for first time
By Adam Mann | Wed, 28 Jun 2023

9. Major funders back pivotal trial of novel TB vaccine
By Jon Cohen | Wed, 28 Jun 2023

10. This robot is a real-life transformer, but not like any you’ve seen before
By Celina Zhao | Tue, 27 Jun 2023

11. Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their calves
By Virginia Morell | Mon, 26 Jun 2023

12. ‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results
By Elizabeth Finkel | Sun, 25 Jun 2023