Advances

Cloud-diving expeditions reveal the hidden physics of brewing snowstorms

As climate change makes the planet hotter, some animals might become more active at night to escape the midday heat

Scientists discover why fathers usually don’t pass on their mitochondria’s genome

A newly spotted world is just perplexingly dense

A newly released image from the James Webb Space Telescope provides a detailed view of a star’s infancy

Researchers go to great lengths to prove a tiny bias in coin flipping

Deciphering a scorched scroll from ancient Herculaneum, unlikely flavors in climate-change-affected wine, an undiscovered ore found in China, and more in this month’s Quick Hits

This year’s most interesting space images include infrared views of galactic “bones,” an asteroid’s double moon, Jupiter’s giant polar vortex, and more

Some female stick insects can reproduce without males—but they have a secret

An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts

Can waste plastic can be converted into hydrogen gas and a type of graphene—at a profit?

Dirty air has been linked to poor health outcomes, ranging from suicidality to low birth weight