Today's selection of science news. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of newspaper stories). I include quotes from the summary (using quotation marks) in cases where the title alone doesn't reveal what the story is about. My own thoughts appear without quotation marks, if I have any.
astrobiology
Table salt compound spotted on Europa
aka sodium chloride
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
ecology
Monkeys face climate change extinction threat
neuroscience
The brains of birds synchronize when they sing duets
this has been shown for human musicians too, a few years ago.
sustainable technology
Scientists develop a chemocatalytic approach for one-pot reaction of cellulosic ethanol
humans
The short life of Must Farm
"Extraordinarily well-preserved Late Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire provides exceptional opportunity to investigate the everyday lives of people in the final decades of the Bronze Age in Britain."
Diet at the docks: Living and dying at the port of ancient Rome
"Analysis of plant, animal and human remains from Portus, the maritime port of Imperial Rome, has reconstructed for the first time the diets and geographic origins of its inhabitants, suggesting a shift in food resources following the Vandal sack of Rome in AD 455."
The Wikipedia gender gap
"In a recent University of Washington study, researchers interviewed women 'Wikipedians' to examine the lack of female and non-binary editors in Wikipedia."
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