Advances

The way we’re “wired” to learn may divide us

Though sometimes overstated, the benefits of cold-water swimming are slowly becoming clearer

Rather than relying on bacteria, whiteflies cut out the middleman and acquired their own genes to process nitrogen

Scientists are putting together a catalog of communications from belugas’ forehead “melon”

Scientists think they’ve cracked the long-standing mystery of attraction among particles with a similar charge

One percent of scientific articles published in 2023 showed signs of generative AI’s potential involvement, according to a recent analysis

Ancestors of so-called soft corals may have developed bioluminescence in the earliest days of deep-ocean living

Certain brain layers specialize in particular waves—which might aid understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders

A high-tech pair of gloves can help make learning instruments and other hands-on activities easier

What makes a word survive or go extinct?

A rice-grain-size fish screams louder than a jackhammer—and we have a lot to learn from its minuscule brain

Artificial DNA sorts images like a neural network does