Advances

A single-celled organism’s pathfinding reveals connections in the universe’s vast “cosmic web”

Inside giant, iridescent clams are algal farms that could inspire highly efficient bioreactors

Reptile teeth have long been considered simple and cheap because the animals replace them regularly. That isn’t so, Komodo dragons show

Baffling new results show that rocklike mineral deposits in the deep sea can produce oxygen

Pugs, Boston terriers, bulldogs and boxers—dogs with less wolflike facial features are worse at conveying their feelings

Children at risk of dyslexia who played Space Invaders Extreme 2 showed improvement at a word-identification task

For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the 3D structure of ancient genetic material, in this case from a 52,000-year-old mammoth

A low-tech immune boost may help some species of frogs survive a brutal fungal disease that’s already ended 90 amphibian species

Fear of phantom costs pushes us to avoid “free money” or “too good to be true” offers

People whose eyes dilated more performed better on tests of working memory

Scientists finally know how a gelatinous deep-sea creature keeps its cells from paralysis under pressure

An image of interstellar dust moving through the Milky Way’s magnetic field may help scientists learn more about the origin of galaxies