- New materials for sustainable, low-cost batteries
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending April 28, 2018)
- Size matters when fighting cancer
- The digital transformation of news media and the rise of online disinformation
- Drones are about to start mapping the Great Wall of China in incredible detail
- Why cereal crops are so drought-tolerant
- The Golden State Killer was found via DNA genealogy—and he won’t be the last
- Mercury’s thin, dense crust
- Warming future means more fire, fewer trees in western biodiversity hotspot
- Investigators searched a million people’s DNA to find Golden State serial killer
- Scientists project a drier Amazon and wetter Indonesia in the future
- Catching mantle plumes by their magma tails
- Growing ‘dead zone’ confirmed by underwater robots in the Gulf of Oman
- More than 9 in 10 elementary school teachers feel highly stressed
- Capturing of the rare Yanbaru whiskered bat
- How success breeds success in the sciences
- The brave new world of genetic genealogy
- Parents may help prep kids for healthier, less violent relationships
- New carbon-dioxide-adsorbing crystals could form the basis of future biomedical materials that rely on the shape-memory effect
- Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to gadgets listening to the voice inside your head
- A powerful laser breakthrough
- "It’s easier to build an AI system to detect a nipple than what is hate speech."
- City fish evolve different body forms than country fish
- New catalyst turns ammonia into an innovative clean fuel