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Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller

New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data

Vote on your favorite miniature art pieces and discover their link to futuristic research

These songbirds swap chirps for blinks when nature drowns them out

An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres

Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching

A new roadmap for identifying the ocean's singing ghosts

Making sense of a new era of time-domain astronomy from the Rubin Observatory

This “Phantom Galaxy” is riddled with holes that may be the handiwork of violent stars

What frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology