Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests
By Sofia Moutinho | Fri, 26 Feb 2021 

2. New, more inclusive journal policies ease author name changes on published papers
By Katie Langin | Thu, 25 Feb 2021 

3. Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before
By Julia Rosen | Thu, 25 Feb 2021 

4. This complex microbial warfare is taking place in a single drop of water
By Elizabeth Pennisi | Thu, 25 Feb 2021 

5. The first organism to use oxygen may have appeared surprisingly early
By Robert F. Service | Thu, 25 Feb 2021 

6. Bizarre, bloblike motion of microscopic creature may give clues to early animal movement
By Elizabeth Pennisi | Wed, 24 Feb 2021 

7. After dramatic landing, Mars rover will probe ancient lake for clues to planet’s wet past

By Paul Voosen | Tue, 23 Feb 2021 

8. Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
By Sarah Crespi | Thu, 25 Feb 2021

9. California coronavirus strain may be more infectious—and lethal
By Meredith Wadman | Tue, 23 Feb 2021 

10. How fairy circles form in Shanghai’s salt marshes
By Meagan Cantwell | Tue, 23 Feb 2021

11. Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet
By Catherine Matacic | Mon, 22 Feb 2021 

12. Brain cell clusters, grown in lab for more than a year, mirror changes in a newborn’s brain
By Kelly Servick | Mon, 22 Feb 2021 

13. Rare cosmic neutrino traced to star-swallowing black hole
By Daniel Clery | Mon, 22 Feb 2021