The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
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Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love
Studies of prairie voles are providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it
Solving Cement's Massive Carbon Problem
New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production
Acting Out Dreams Predicts Parkinson's and Other Brain Diseases
Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease
The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change
Speaking to people’s priorities can build the will needed to implement climate solutions
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- From the Editor
Adorable Voles, Life as We Don't Know It and Better Cement
- Letters
Readers Respond to the October 2022 Issue
- Advances
Life on Mars May Have Been Its Own Worst Enemy
Drones Sample Rare Specimens from Cliffs and Other Dangerous Places
Cataclysmic Collisions May Explain 'Forbidden' Exoplanets
Five-Eyed, Nozzle-Nosed Oddity Lingered Far beyond the Cambrian Period
Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2023
Here's How a Python Jaw Can Fit a Whole Deer
This Lemur's Creepily Long Finger Is Perfect for Nose Picking
Weird Weather: How to Tell a Williwaw from a Haboob
How Plants' Plumbing Let Them Conquer the World
This Common Aquatic Plant Could Produce Buckets of Biofuel
Native Americans Conducted Large-Scale Copper Mining 6,000 Years Ago
- Forum
There Are Too Few Women in Computer Science and Engineering
- The Science of Health
Better Patient Care Calls for a 'Platinum Rule' to Replace the Golden One
- The Science Agenda
Let Teenagers Sleep
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: February 2023
- Graphic Science
How the U.S. Lost Years of Life
- Reviews
Death, Sex and Aliens: A Surprising History of Slime
- Meter
Poem: 'A Quantum Cento'
- Mind Matters
The Dark Side of Collaboration
- Observatory
We Can't Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel Emissions
- The Universe
Dazzling New JWST Image Shows Dusty Stellar Spirals
- Q&A
One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved
