Top science news headlines for the week 23

Monday, Jun 01
Astronomy
225

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions

Nanomaterials
98

Nanoengineered materials can store and release hydrogen at room temperature

Ecology
10

Researchers use phylogenomics to identify cyanobacteria in Shenandoah River

Earth Sciences
61

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C—but only if they're the right type

Environment
45

Why dirty farm plastic matters: Cleaner mulch film could cut landfill waste and fossil fuel use

Archaeology
490

Thirty years at El Mirón cave uncover 40,000 years of Iberian prehistory

Economics & Business
18

Young and unemployed? Remote work, not AI, may be the problem, study finds

Tuesday, Jun 02
Optics & Photonics
3171

Cutting a photon in two creates an infinite swarm of particles

Mathematics
43

How a Richard Feynman formula could explain your dining habits in a new city

Bio & Medicine
387

Biohybrid microrobots repair spinal cord by combining stem cells with magnetoelectric nanoparticles

Archaeology
37

Britain's oldest cave art may have been rediscovered in Bacon Hole cave

Plants & Animals
36

Bird masturbation appears natural across 120 species, challenging long-held veterinary advice

Bio & Medicine
14

Nanoparticles boost delivery of lung cancer drugs 30-fold

Evolution
97

A new origin story for multicellular life points to physics, not genes alone

Wednesday, Jun 03
Plants & Animals
330

How honeybees really crown their queens

Evolution
194

Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life

Social Sciences
6

Abortion restrictions associated with lower female medical school applicant numbers

Evolution
2393

World's largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils

Space Exploration
59

Solar sails edge closer to reality, but interstellar travel is another story

Social Sciences
9

How to encourage a child to try new, scary things (without traumatizing them in the process)

Biotechnology
6

Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies

Thursday, Jun 04
Plants & Animals
63

Bumble bees show spontaneous problem-solving, challenging big-brain assumptions

Bio & Medicine
6

Detection at the nanoscale: A phosphate-detecting electrochemical sensor

Earth Sciences
16

Wildfires reverse decade of ozone cleanup in the United States, study reveals

Plants & Animals
22

Why jellyfish can't rise to the surface

Astrobiology
24

Atmosphere survival model refines search for habitable planets

Plants & Animals
17

Bison restoration efforts and grazing rights hinge on one question: Are bison wildlife?

Earth Sciences
17

Global mangrove forests rebound, offering hopeful sign for climate and coastal resilience

Friday, Jun 05
Plants & Animals
623

'The Heaven Sword' crowned as East Asia's tallest tree after a nearly decade-long search

Social Sciences
248

Remote work is taking its toll on the mental health of American workers, researchers find

Environment
47

Billions face growing water risk as sediment fills reservoirs faster than expected worldwide

Political science
9

From exporting spyware to surveilling activists—how democracies became the new digital authoritarians

Plants & Animals
441

Deep-sea supergiant isopods last years without food by using a two-part survival system

Astrobiology
30

Could it be aliens? From Cheyava Falls on Mars to exoplanet K2‑18b—here's what scientists really think

Condensed Matter
38

Light pulses uncover Higgs mode that reshapes perovskite crystal symmetry

Saturday, Jun 06
Other
18

Saturday Citations: Greenland sharks; quantum weirdness; people are mostly pretty chill

Social Sciences
93

Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters

Education
0

Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white

Earth Sciences
12

Volcanic eruptions linked to rising famine risk across China's history

Plants & Animals
1

Ever seen a cave cricket? Australia now has three new species of these spindly, spider-like creatures

Earth Sciences
7

Mount Etna eruptions reveal carbon dioxide and water can trigger separate explosive paths

Bio & Medicine
6

Hair-size microrobots combine three cancer-fighting functions in preclinical animal tests