Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels

Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface

The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows

Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink