Science

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Over recent months, scepticism around fluoride has intensified. The people who will suffer most are children who are ‘the most vulnerable of the vulnerable’.

Up to 350 scientists will be laid off as the national science agency announces a cost-cutting restructure stemming from financial pressures and government funding not keeping up.

The Cancer Killers follows two Australian scientists as they fight against the odds to bring a potentially game-changing cancer treatment to the world.

An American biologist who helped discover the shape of DNA molecules is being remembered for both his breakthrough and racial remarks that got him in trouble.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘I think this is a landmark development. They put a pig’s liver in a human for a month, and the human did fine.’

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild broke new ground and were hailed as ‘one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements’.

THE WASHINGTON POST: An ancient skull is challenging the textbook timeline of human evolution, prompting some scientists to argue that our own species is much older than previously thought.

US President Donald Trump has controversially linked the use of the common painkiller paracetamol with autism — a claim Australian experts and medical regulators have debunked.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: New studies offer clues about Mars’ history. The knowledge could help scientists better understand rocky worlds.

Images of speckled rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover could hold the key to one of the red planet’s most enduring mysteries.

Early risers across the nation were treated to a rare celestial spectacle as the moon transformed into a fiery orb.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Parents have been meddling with their children’s heads since prehistoric times. To achieve the desired form the pliable skulls of new-borns were manipulated.

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.

Astronaut James Lovell, commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to Earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died aged 97.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oslo wants to parlay the skills of the petroleum industry and its favourable geology into a kind of garbage disposal service for emissions from heavy industry.