Seven Days in 2016

Theranos debuts new blood-testing device; Google and GlaxoSmithKline team up on bioelectronics; and United States has first domestic Zika transmissions.

Solar-powered plane completes round-the-world trip; 2016 on track to become hottest year; and Mexico tries to save endangered porpoise.

Turkey purges all university deans after failed coup; engineered mosquitos show apparent success against dengue; and Romania joins CERN.

Dwarf planet discovered beyond Neptune; unprecedented mangrove deaths linked to climate change; and French scientists protest against pick for top agriculture post.

Chemist killed on Mexican university campus; Juno craft reaches Jupiter orbit; and Nobel laureates defend genetically modified organisms.

Ill workers rescued from Antarctic station; controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini faces manslaughter charges; and China dominates list of fastest supercomputers.

Daring Antarctic evacuation under way; US medical association declares gun violence a health crisis; and astronomers find Earth in a rocky relationship.

LIGO spots another gravitational wave; increasing light pollution on Earth obscures the Milky Way; and moose develop infectious prion disease in Norway.

Gravitational-wave observatory passes technology test; gunman kills engineering professor in California; and Egypt’s bullied students and professors get international recognition.

Good grades for international nuclear-fusion project; EU ministers lend support to open-access movement; and US study raises doubts about mobile-phone safety.

Pandemic war chest unveiled for developing countries; India launches space shuttle; and US National Football League criticized over health-funding pressure.

Costs of climate adaptation soar; Mexican porpoise close to extinction; and overhaul for UK science funding.

Mercury crosses the face of the Sun; effects of society on sleep; and the world’s longest insect.

New Mars missions shape up; Nobel laureate passes away; and a marten stops the world’s biggest science experiment.

Paris climate deal signed; NIH clinical trials suspended; and duplicated images found in hundreds of biology papers.

Ecuador and Japan earthquakes; CRISPR crops get the green light; and European gravitational-wave detector gets a boost.

Total area sown with genetically modified plants fell 1% in 2015.

Human embryos made HIV-resistant; reusable rocket lands on ship; Pfizer calls off merger with Allergan.

Ebola emergency over; ice wall to contain Fukushima leak; and ET search begins.

Observatories go it alone; the Philippines gets its first satellite; and Russian funding concerns.