Advances

AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease

Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea

Fix the matchstick equation in this math puzzle

A newfound nocturnal navigation system challenges what entomologists thought they knew about how ants find their way

The “coastline paradox” helped to define fractals, but coastlines themselves turn out to be less fractal than thought

Some of Earth’s tiniest life-forms inhabit slowly sinking particles of fish poop and debris, playing a crucial role in ocean carbon storage

Research suggests depression assessment questionnaires can’t reliably compare people with differing intelligence

Mapping their starting point like bees do helps autonomous drones find their way

Long-held assumptions tell us that atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons are indistinguishable, but one physicist wants to put this idea to the test

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will eventually reveal more like it