Flexible wings help locusts maximize efficiency in flight, new research shows. (p. 12)

The long-predicted ice XV has been spotted in the lab. (p. 10)

Proposed materials offer a way for physicists to study black holes and chaotic planetary orbits in the laboratory. (p. 10)

Playing the geometry-based computer game can boost the brain’s gray matter.

Scientists identify gene that may shape the heart. (p. 12)

New procedure may halt some serious inherited diseases, a study suggests. (p. 8)

Scientists find previously unknown deep-sea species that launch bioluminescent packets. (p. 10)

Researchers find that a strange kind of imaging relies on quantum mechanics. (p. 12)

A new study shows that if ions are kept cool, then the information they hold can be repeatedly manipulated.

When the monitor lizard chomped into Bryan Fry, it did more than turn his hand into a bloody mess. Besides ripping skin and severing tendons, the lizard delivered noxious venom into Fry’s body, injecting molecules that quickly thinned his blood and dilated his vessels. As the tiny toxic assassins dispersed throughout his circulatory system, they hit their targets with speed and precision, ultimately causing more blood to gush from Fry’s wound. Over millions of years, evolution has meticulously shaped these toxins into powerful weapons, and Fry was feeling the devastating consequences ... (p. 16)

Researchers find a way to make energy-using brown fat from skin cells. (p. 9)