Advances

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

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

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

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

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

Social context shapes how fiddler crabs communicate by vibrating the ground underneath their burrows

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

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

New research examines the molecular machinery behind a beetle’s strange biological cycle

Artificial DNA sorts images like a neural network does

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