Advances

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

Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge after more than a decade underground

A syncopated rhythm may prompt our brain to find the beat

Giving cells an appetite for cancer could enhance treatments

These bizarre-looking clouds form in stable atmospheric eddies

When zooming forward, hummingbirds rely on a unique internal “cruise control”

Solar farms seeded with wildflowers can boost pollinator populations

Researchers don’t know how this pair of free-floating planets formed or why it radiates so brightly

Tricks to produce strange “ordered” ice could reveal new ice forms

Bringing people together virtually doesn’t seem to boost disruptive research

A heart valve transplant could save the life of a baby—or two

Electron tornadoes that mimic “magnetic monopoles” emerge from specks of rust