Weekly Headlines (Exerpts)

1. Deadly tick-borne virus gains ground in Europe as climate warms

Kosovo shows how surveillance can uncover hidden circulation—and help countries prepare before human cases appear

 21 Aug 2026 By Richard Stone 

2. AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

 20 Aug 2026 By Kai Kupferschmidt 

3. Footprints may reveal biggest known mammal from age of the dinosaurs

Beefy tracks point to a Cretaceous critter as big as a large dog or mountain lion

 20 Aug 2026 By Taylor Mitchell Brown 

4. Scientific spat erupts over claim that bones have key immune vessels

Discovery of lymphatic tubes suggested new possibilities for bone healing, but challenge has prompted dueling papers and publication delay in prominent journal

 20 Aug 2026 By Catherine Offord 

5. Truck-size crocodilians once ruled South America’s wetlands

The region’s enormous herbivores, some weighing more than 1 ton, were no match for this prehistoric beast

 19 Aug 2026 By Phie Jacobs 

6. ‘Brain-eating amoeba’ appears to love crawling into narrow spaces

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity

 19 Aug 2026 By Isabella Backman 

7. Fastest known star could reveal the spin of our galaxy’s giant black hole

Racing at 8% the speed of light, record-setting object orbits the Milky Way’s black hole every 8.7 years

 19 Aug 2026 By Daniel Clery 

8. Mysterious droplets in cat kidneys may help felines send long-lasting messages

Lipid envelopes allow cat “calling cards” to survive for months in the environment

 19 Aug 2026 By Olivia Ferrari 

9. China mission aims for the Moon’s hidden water with ‘hopping’ probe

Chang’e-7 will sample lunar ice in a polar crater to trace its origins

 19 Aug 2026 By Dennis Normile 

10. Medieval Europe was battered with 16 catastrophic floods in just 2 years

The intense deluges, never before documented, represent the highest number of back-to-back extreme weather events in the past 700 years  

 18 Aug 2026 By Julia Vaz 

11. Could indigo light prevent nearsightedness in children?

Study of tree shrews points to specific wavelengths of light that might help stave off myopia

 18 Aug 2026 By Zoe Beketova

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