{"id":906480,"date":"2026-05-17T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/science-news-this-week-pcos-has-a-new-name-neanderthals-were-the-worlds-oldest-dentists-and-the-first-nuclear-bomb-explosion-spawned-an-alien-crystal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:14:29","slug":"science-news-this-week-pcos-has-a-new-name-neanderthals-were-the-worlds-oldest-dentists-and-the-first-nuclear-bomb-explosion-spawned-an-alien-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/science-news-this-week-pcos-has-a-new-name-neanderthals-were-the-worlds-oldest-dentists-and-the-first-nuclear-bomb-explosion-spawned-an-alien-crystal\/","title":{"rendered":"Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world&#8217;s oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an &#8216;alien&#8217; crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/science-news-this-week-pcos-has-a-new-name-neanderthals-were-the-worlds-oldest-dentists-and-the-first-nuclear-bomb-explosion-spawned-an-alien-crystal\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Tyisha Kucera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend&#8230;Read MoreTyisha Kucera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25579,3421,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-906480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-neanderthals","8":"category-science","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}