The Sciences

It has been a tough year, but science still brought us some weird, cool and quirky findings

Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Panama about the toll lightning takes on tropical trees.

Earth may well be a latecomer to the fraternity of technological civilizations

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Scientific American has a long history of featuring poetry, and our monthly column once again brings new works to the world

Resilient corals in Miami may signal what the future holds for these creatures

A bold hypothesis could account for the perplexing presence of multiple fungi

GN-z11’s light signatures helped researchers estimate its distance from Earth

Juvenile ravens performed just as well as chimps and orangutans in a battery of intelligence tests—except for assays of spatial skills. Christopher Intagliata reports.

“Multimessenger” SETI would broaden the quest to find celestial companions

One goal laid out in the new policy is the testing of a fission power system on the moon by the mid- to late 2020s

It’s absolutely necessary if we’re going to weather the inevitable crises we’ll continue to face