Last Week’s Latest Science News

Innovation hotspots, FDA v. Alliance, cancer in China, eclipse this month, and the uncanny valley turns 55.

Ebola drugs, COVID vaccines, lab leak (again), transgender rights, and the enigma of the direct-to-consumer microbiome test

Restoring coral reefs, how the opioid epidemic hits toddlers, old fossils, a new snakeworm, and why we love those sounds booming-out-a-jeep

Fish stripes, butterfly flaps, California wildfires, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, and why they want to dehydrate the stratosphere

Meet "Scarface" the white dwarf star—also, Medicaid, 3D printed eyes, epigenetic silencing as therapy, and the awful legacy of eugenics

Gossip, Ozempic, sex in the brain, evolution of snakes, and a major clinical trial for autoimmunity

Joey the hungry quasar, starving grad students, in-house pharmacies, and the true cost of redlining

Ant jaws, polar bears, a better cuppa tea, and why you can't swat a mosquito with one hand

Funny apes, coral reefs, vaccine mandates, universal emojis, and beefy rice (literally)

Spiral lenses, a surprise ocean, Hollywood movie posters, and how blueberries became blue

AI, happiness, anger, racism, e-cigarettes, moths v. bats, and forever chemicals