Advances

Scientists have finally figured out how to make heads or tails of starfish

Scientists have developed an ultrasound device to detect aggressive breast cancer that may develop between screenings

Two orbiting stars are causing unsustainably large tides as they draw closer together

Scientists have proposed a network of supercomputing centers that would focus on local climate impacts

Nuclear clocks could shatter timekeeping records. Now physicists are learning how to build one

Participants who smelled odors while they slept performed better on word-recall tests

Geneticists don’t know what most human genes do. A new research tool may help

Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glacial and ice-sheet-melting physics

From stray bullets to power companies, humans spark almost all of California’s wildfires

Coral trysts by moonlight in French Polynesia, polluted Antarctic wilderness, mummified bees in Portugal, and more in this month’s Quick Hits

A molecular additive allows different kinds of plastic to be recycled together

Researchers have created the first nerve-controlled prosthetic hand that can be used in daily life