Weekly Headlines (Excerpts)

1. Menopause puts the brain at risk. Researchers are starting to learn why

Shifts in blood proteins could point to ways to fight menopause “brain fog” and prevent later dementia

1 Oct 2026 By Jennie Erin Smith 

2. AI helps decipher what elephant herds are ‘saying’

What sounds like a jumble of noise is actually a group signal

1 Oct 2026 By Julia Vaz 

3. Oil wells could become mines for critical minerals

Engineered fluids could extract metals from fracked reservoirs, supplying materials for solar cells and electric vehicles

1 Oct 2026 By Paul Voosen

4. Method to ‘watermark’ AI-designed proteins could deter bioweapons, protect scientific credit

Google DeepMind team inserts identifiable pattern into protein’s sequence without compromising its structure or function

30 Sep 2026 By Catherine Offord 

5. Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle

Optical illusions trick enemies into misjudging the insects’ speed and direction

30 Sep 2026 By Phie Jacobs 

6. These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes

Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals

29 Sep 2026 By Taylor Mitchell Brown 

7. Scientists engineered a glowing cuttlefish. Why was it so hard?

Breakthroughs in genetically altering cephalopods pave way for new studies of perception, brain evolution, and more

28 Sep 2026 By Sara Reardon 

8. New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared

NASA’s $1.2 billion PRIMA will explore how galaxies evolve and how planets emerge from disks of gas and dust

25 Sep 2026 By Daniel Clery 

9. Laser-generated particles allow scientists to see through walls

First clean pictures from a muon beam point to a new way to peer inside suspicious packages and ancient structures

25 Sep 2026 By Zack Savitsky 

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