Top science news headlines for the week 15

Monday, Apr 08
Condensed Matter
1457

Magnetic levitation: New material offers potential for unlocking gravity-free technology

Social Sciences
630

Americans are bad at recognizing conspiracy theories when they believe they're true, says study

Archaeology
597

Archaeologists find that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens organized living spaces similarly

General Physics
374

FASER measures high-energy neutrino interaction strength

Archaeology
304

Early medieval money mystery solved

Evolution
285

Researchers bring 60-year-old dormant algae cells to life

Environment
218

New study suggests we're likely underestimating the future impact of PFAS in the environment

Tuesday, Apr 09
Archaeology
809

First languages of North America traced back to two very different language groups from Siberia

General Physics
769

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed the existence of the 'God particle,' dies at 94

Earth Sciences
666

Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica—and melt floating ice shelves from below

Earth Sciences
517

Humans have converted at least 250,000 acres of estuaries to cities and farms in last 35 years, study finds

Condensed Matter
474

New technique lets scientists create resistance-free electron channels

Archaeology
392

Unraveling the iconography of the Etruscan lamp of Cortona, Italy

Plants & Animals
388

How whales struggle to navigate in a sea of noise pollution

Wednesday, Apr 10
Condensed Matter
1007

Quantum crystal of frozen electrons—the Wigner crystal—is visualized for the first time

Paleontology & Fossils
965

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years

Condensed Matter
964

Physicists discover a novel quantum state in an elemental solid

General Physics
776

ATLAS provides first measurement of the W-boson width at the LHC

Social Sciences
453

The evolving attitudes of Gen X toward evolution

Quantum Physics
408

Team is first ever to measure qubits with ultrasensitive thermal detectors, evading Heisenberg uncertainty principle

Archaeology
320

Discovery of pottery rewrites Aboriginal history

Thursday, Apr 11
Cell & Microbiology
3719

Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle

Cell & Microbiology
2664

Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature

Earth Sciences
1664

Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves, study finds

Nanomaterials
583

Nothing is everything: How hidden emptiness can define the usefulness of filtration materials

Earth Sciences
443

Cloud engineering could be more effective 'painkiller' for global warming than previously thought

Plants & Animals
318

Scientists find blue light makes buildings more deadly to migrating birds

Plants & Animals
253

What do bird dreams sound like?

Friday, Apr 12
General Physics
1590

Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter

Astronomy
1401

Researchers confirm brightest gamma-ray burst of all time came from the collapse of a massive star

General Physics
992

Evidence of a new subatomic particle observed

Space Exploration
480

NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter's possibly life-sustaining moon

Plants & Animals
455

New species of ant found pottering under the Pilbara named after Voldemort

Plants & Animals
364

Bonobos are more aggressive than previously thought, study shows

Plants & Animals
344

Research team discovers more than 50 potentially new deep-sea species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet

Saturday, Apr 13
Astronomy
616

Physicists solve puzzle about ancient galaxy found by Webb telescope

Archaeology
225

What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research

Polymers
143

Researchers study effects of solvation and ion valency on metallopolymers

Quantum Physics
121

The experimental demonstration of a verifiable blind quantum computing protocol

Other
85

Saturday Citations: Listening to bird dreams, securing qubits, imagining impossible billiards

Materials Science
85

Chemists devise easier new method for making a common type of building block for drugs

Environment
72

Americans more willing to pay for climate action after extreme weather

Sunday, Apr 14
Archaeology
129

Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived

Plants & Animals
72

Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea's giant fossil kangaroos

Environment
53

Scientists find vast numbers of illegal 'ghost roads' used to crack open pristine rainforest

Environment
18

Tandem heat waves, storm surges increasingly batter coasts: Study

Plants & Animals
2

Bad boys: Study finds aggressive bonobo males attract more mates