Advances

Bubbles shaped like teardrops, flattened eggs and worms reveal ice’s inner life

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

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

Forestry is deadly. Could automating some logging tasks help?

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