For the first time scientists have isolated the microbes that help give chocolate its great taste wsj.com/science/chocol… via The Wall Street Journal

Universities facing budget shortfalls after federal cuts to science research are looking to Georgia Tech for advice. The school gets nearly 15% of its campus research funds from industry wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal

Georgia Tech has a strategy for wooing corporate partners. Other universities want in. wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal

Engineers are designing a new generation of space habitats meant to make life easier for astronauts and appealing to space tourists wsj.com/tech/space-hab… via The Wall Street Journal

Ancient teeth unearthed in eastern Africa reveal a new species of human ancestor wsj.com/science/human-… via The Wall Street Journal

Exclusive: RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies. wsj.com/health/healthc… via The Wall Street Journal

Squirrels developed a surprising (and human-like) trait over millions of years that is a key to their abundance. Nidhi Subbaraman reports for #WSJScienceShorts wsj.com/science/rodent… via The Wall Street Journal

Science Shorts: NASA announced it has found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. Is it another false alarm? wsj.com/science/space-… via The Wall Street Journal

What's next for running shoes? Thick foams and stiff plates confer a biomechanical advantage—but as sneakers grow higher, are there implications for our running experience? wsj.com/tech/running-s… via The Wall Street Journal

Researchers applied modern-day tools of epidemiology to trace how rumors provoked the “Great Fear” of the French Revolution—possibly offering insight into how unrest erupts today wsj.com/science/french… via The Wall Street Journal

Scientists have solved the puzzling origin story of the modern spud: “We revealed that tomato is the mother of potato” wsj.com/science/potato… via The Wall Street Journal

Jane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 wsj.com/science/jane-g… via The Wall Street Journal

How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. wsj.com/science/social… via The Wall Street Journal

A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit wsj.com/science/nobel-… via The Wall Street Journal

A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit wsj.com/science/nobel-… via The Wall Street Journal

In a first, astronomers watched a rogue planet in the Milky Way consume six billion tons of gas and dust per second, a rate never before seen wsj.com/science/space-… via The Wall Street Journal

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship wsj.com/world/americas… via The Wall Street Journal