Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

1. Metal scaffolds turn bacteria into live wires

Mud-dwelling cable bacteria construct metal organic frameworks to grow

 7 NOV 2025  BY ROBERT F. SERVICE 

2. To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’

A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies

 6 NOV 2025  BY SOFIA MOUTINHO 

3. AI drives dramatic expansion of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s funding to end all diseases

Entering its second decade, philanthropy with Facebook fortune has shed social causes and now focuses on ambitious science dream

 6 NOV 2025  BY JON COHEN 

4. Researchers ‘decode’ Mandarin Chinese from neural signals

Advances in brain-computer interfaces could help millions who use tonal languages speak again after stroke or disease

 5 NOV 2025  BY JENNIE ERIN SMITH 

5. Simple mix of enzymes shows how information arises out of chemical chaos

Roots of computational intelligence may lie deeper in matter than scientists thought

 5 NOV 2025  BY ANIRBAN MUKHOPADHYAY 

6. Mystery group lived in central Argentina for millennia, ancient DNA reveals

New study fills major gap in genetic map of ancient human migrations

 5 NOV 2025  BY ANDREW CURRY 

7. Forests are migrating up mountain peaks

Satellite imagery reveals an unexpected shift in tree lines—but it may not have anything to do with climate change

 4 NOV 2025  BY PAUL VOOSEN 

8. Australia’s red rocks hold mysteriously detailed fossils. We finally know how they formed

Chemical analysis could help predict locations of other ancient sites with impeccable fossils

 4 NOV 2025  BY TAYLOR MITCHELL BROWN 

9. Startup pioneers subscription service for space-based astronomy

Blue Skies Space will sell data from its tiny, low-cost UV telescope

 4 NOV 2025  BY DANIEL CLERY 

10. Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again—with an all new, AI twist

For the first time, there’s a special prize for a research-themed dance generated by an artificial intelligence program

 4 NOV 2025  BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 

11. Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI

New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs

 3 NOV 2025  BY JEFFREY BRAINARD 

12. This organism turns dino bones orange—making them easier to spot

Paleontologists use drones and brightly colored lichen to search for fossils in the Canadian Badlands

 3 NOV 2025  BY PHIE JACOBS 

13. Antarctic glacier shows fastest retreat in modern history

Tides and glacial earthquakes caused record ice loss at Hektoria Glacier

 3 NOV 2025  BY HANNAH RICHTER