Weekly Headlines (excerpts)

1. Pandemic school closures were especially hard on the mental health of younger, more vulnerable children
By Gretchen Vogel | Fri, 18 Aug 2023

2. South Africa to ban fishing around African penguin colonies for 10 years
By Munyaradzi Makoni | Thu, 17 Aug 2023

3.  Want to run a marathon in less than 2 hours? Unusual formation could help
By Christie Wilcox | Wed, 16 Aug 2023

4. In Uruguay, a water crisis is upending research
By María de los ángeles Orfila | Fri, 18 Aug 2023

5. Three organs in one? Researchers unscramble mysterious roles of human yolk sac
By Mitch Leslie | Thu, 17 Aug 2023

6. Hear a classic Pink Floyd song reconstructed from listeners’ brain waves

By Phie Jacobs | Tue, 15 Aug 2023

7. Revolutionary x-ray sensor to probe workings of black holes and supernovae
By Daniel Clery | Wed, 16 Aug 2023

8. ‘Folks in Alaska should take this seriously.’ Anchorage not safe from tsunamis, study finds
By Christian Elliott | Wed, 16 Aug 2023

9. Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin
By Christie Wilcox | Tue, 15 Aug 2023

10. Without hands, some birds wing it with their feet
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre | Tue, 15 Aug 2023

11. Your cells don’t have the genome you were born with. Project aims to chart impact of new mutations
By Mitch Leslie | Tue, 15 Aug 2023