Top science news headlines for the week 07

Monday, Feb 12
Astrobiology
4630

Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time

Archaeology
615

Archaeologists discover oldest known bead in the Americas

Nanophysics
584

Breakthrough in single-photon integration holds promise for quantum computing, cryptography

Archaeology
351

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population, DNA analysis suggests

Analytical Chemistry
283

Vanadium research makes key advance for capturing carbon from the air

Ecology
272

New study on decomposing microbes could help transform forensic science

Archaeology
247

Traces of Stone Age hunter-gatherers discovered in the Baltic Sea

Tuesday, Feb 13
Earth Sciences
653

Greenland's ice sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation, finds major satellite analysis

Earth Sciences
410

New evidence changes key ideas about Earth's climate history

Earth Sciences
265

A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool, study finds

Earth Sciences
205

Frequent marine heat waves in the Arctic Ocean will be the norm, says new study

Evolution
164

New study suggests birds began diversifying long before dinosaurs went extinct

Astronomy
149

Discovery of unexpected ultramassive galaxies may not rewrite cosmology, but still leaves questions

Social Sciences
144

Short corrective comments can help social media users to spot false information, study shows

Wednesday, Feb 14
Astrobiology
571

Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

Condensed Matter
337

Altermagnetism: A new type of magnetism, with broad implications for technology and research

Social Sciences
232

Nearly 15% of Americans deny climate change is real, AI study finds

Archaeology
215

New evidence of independent written language on Easter Island before arrival of Europeans

Molecular & Computational biology
151

AI tool predicts function of unknown proteins

Condensed Matter
146

A new optical metamaterial makes true one-way glass possible

Astronomy
145

'Beyond what's possible': New JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxy