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Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained
The tiny sparks behind spooky myths might have also started life on Earth
The Extreme Animals in Our Backyards
Alex Riley’s three greatest revelations while writing Super Natural
A Pediatrician’s Lament
How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy makes life harder for local physicians
Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science
The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine
Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech
Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller
How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries
New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data
A Nano-sized Art Gallery
Vote on your favorite miniature art pieces and discover their link to futuristic research
The Silent Language of Birds
These songbirds swap chirps for blinks when nature drowns them out
Modeling the Deep
An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
New Eyes on Space Weather
From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching











