Advances

Video analysis in 3-D shows the tiny creatures’ swarming rules

Salivary glands make unexpected use of tiny ionocytes, essential to frogs and fish

The LEGEND-200 detector could help explain why matter dominates the known universe

Western states’ “atmospheric thirst” means more fires and strained water supplies

The hyperspectral probe can pick out extreme detail of materials on Earth’s surface

Crowdsourced vehicle data trace the contours of dangerous city temperatures

“Blackwater” divers photograph the largest migration of animals on the planet

Weirdly shifting colors may serve dual evolutionary purposes, providing both camouflage and conspicuous warning

We now know that plants survive but fail to thrive in lunar soil

These organisms’ private “mucospheres” play an outsize role in the planet’s carbon cycle

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