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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
Creating a Cosmic Movie
Making sense of a new era of time-domain astronomy from the Rubin Observatory
The Heart of a Haunting Galaxy
This “Phantom Galaxy” is riddled with holes that may be the handiwork of violent stars
The Queer Lives of Frogs
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology
Is Fake Sugar Bad for Brains?
Sweet additives like saccharin and aspartame might fast-track cognitive decline
The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good
This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.











