Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

1．Coral can heal rapidly from bleaching—if it touches a clone

Algal transfusion allows damaged coral to repopulate in as little as 4 weeks

14 Oct 2026 By Warren Cornwall 

2．Mountaintop microwave observatory will peer into the infant universe

The Simons Observatory in Chile will hunt for galaxy clusters and signs of cosmic inflation

14 Oct 2026 By Daniel Clery 

3．This year’s ‘super’ El Niño could wreak ecological havoc worldwide

Ecologists are mobilizing to save threatened species and track ecosystems’ responses to record heat

13 Oct 2026 By Warren Cornwall 

4．AI edges closer to solving the Riemann hypothesis, one of math’s hardest problems

Huge OpenAI release contains “exciting” progress on a puzzle about prime numbers

13 Oct 2026 By Zack Savitsky 

5．Honey bees inject venom with a two-stroke stinger

Unlike other poisonous animals, bees use a strange set of pistons to pump toxin

12 Oct 2026 By Erik Stokstad 

6．Did an AI or a human write that paper? New detector decides by examining its ideas

Algorithm looks for clues about a paper’s origin that text-based detectors miss

12 Oct 2026 By Jeffrey Brainard 

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