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  1. Climate

    Boreal forests shift north

    As forests move northward and to higher elevations, they alter ecosystems and threaten to further heat the Arctic's already warming climate.

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  2. Life

    Protective protein

    Discovering how bacteria defend themselves from foreign DNA might improve techniques for using microbes as little factories to make human proteins.

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  3. Chemistry

    Phlegmatic molecules

    Time-lapse snapshots of molecules show that they change shapes less often than theory predicted.

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  4. Animals

    Wild innovation

    Researchers have published a rare description of a wild chimpanzee devising and modifying a novel form of tool use.

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  5. Astronomy

    Galaxy’s youngest supernova

    Astronomers have found the youngest Milky Way supernova remnant ever recorded from Earth.