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Precision of the food-directional 'waggle dance' fluctuates with audience size and who's in attendance, study reveals

Nanoplastics become more harmful after being outdoors, study finds

Green clay courts serve up environmental solutions by absorbing carbon dioxide

The 'silent takeover': Invasive bees are reshaping Chile's unique pollination networks

Study explores 'antifragility' in nature, where some species benefit from extreme swings

Discovery of genetic switch could help turn rice into a perennial crop

The 'private solution trap': Why richer countries may favor adaptation over public solutions, and who pays

A safer, nonflammable battery electrolyte exists, but self-assembly flaw is holding it back

Python scales host microstructures that block bacterial biofilms—revealing potential for antimicrobial materials

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

Urban blue tits use discarded cigarette butts to protect their nests, study suggests

The evolutionary secret of the California poppy's alkaloids

How dolphins communicate: New discoveries from a long‑term study in Sarasota, Florida

Decoding sugars one bond at a time—without labels

Striped mice survive harsh drought by slowing down and not getting stressed

Mining a methane-degrading bioreactor for protein rubies

Moby Dick 'ship sinking' sperm whales caught headbutting on camera

Ancient 'syphilis-like' disease in Vietnam challenges long-held assumptions on congenital infection

Online ad fraud is a feature, not a bug

Self-cleaning fabric could eliminate the need for detergent

Quantum computers could have a fundamental limit after all

Saturn-mass world discovered orbiting two low-mass stars

Hydrogen shell detected around Nova Persei 1901 may be a planetary nebula

Did you hear the one about scientists telling jokes? Not many did, according to a study of humor at conferences

Electric current stabilizes spins at unstable points for new types of computing

Superconducting quantum processor performs well with significantly less wiring

Field-portable assays help scientists study and explore caves

Police misconduct is often traceable to warning signs before hire: Study recommends national hiring standards

How soil microbes may control the future of our planet

Research team examine ethical and methodological use of generative artificial intelligence in higher education

'Space archaeology' reveals first dynamic history of a giant spiral galaxy

Russia resumes use of space launch site damaged in accident

Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN

An end to the battle between touchscreens and long fingernails is on the horizon

Neutrality can speed up and stabilize collective decisions, new study shows

Measuring irreversibility in gene transcription

Two-thirds of workers are burned out—here's what science says about how to tackle it

How conversation works—and why people with hearing loss rely more on their powers of prediction

Sea turtle shells reveal hidden records of ocean change

Fiber-optic sensors reveal how farming destroys soil's natural structure

Study maps particulate thiols across western North Pacific, tracing them to phytoplankton

Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… Who's going to tend to tomorrow's large tropical plantations?

A lysosome switch could reshape research on cancer and neurodegenerative disease

How moss could help roads cope with heavy rain and reduce air pollution

All 5 fundamental units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

Analysis of 1.4 million interactions shows how employees achieve sophisticated AI collaboration

China's earliest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact unearthed at Sanxingdui sacrificial site

How birds send heat into space measured for the first time—a hidden reflectance of feathers

The silver lining in Europe's deforestation law delay: A chance to build fairer supply chains

Pike eat more as water warms, threatening native species