We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.
A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates how children learn to process emotions.
A microscope reveals an algae-like adaptation that might future-proof crop photosynthesis in extreme heat.
Ammolite gems’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.
The birds grunt like tennis pros when generating their rat-a-tat, a performance strategy that may help stabilize core muscles.
Mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a place once thought too harsh for them to survive. Climate change may play a role in this shift.
An AI tool trained on chemical signatures from corpse-eating insects may help determine time and place of death for victims of violent crimes.
A new Nanotyrannus fossil suggests the diminutive dino lived alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Period.
A type of Japanese dogsbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.
