- New origins for farmed rice discovered
- X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of ‘killer’ black hole
- The world’s oldest farmers were insects
- Bees are more productive in the city than in surrounding regions
- Fish out of water are more common than thought
- New view of brain development: Striking differences between adult and newborn mouse brain
- Scorpions have similar tastes in burrow architecture
- An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn’s moon Enceladus’s icy surface
- The call of the sea: Mammalian evolutionary transitions back to the sea
- The universe is overrun with black holes, astronomers predict
- Study finds contagious cancers are spreading among several species of shellfish
- Service robot Floka’s big debut
- Astrophysicist probes theory of black-hole accretion
- Making computers reason and learn by analogy
- Sierra Nevada snowpack not likely to recover from drought until 2019
- How chameleons capture their prey
- The universe: Learning about the future from the distant past
- Scientists reveal sub-Saharan Africa’s legacy of past migrations over last 4,000 years
- Particle zoo in a quantum computer
- Self-learning arm controlled by thought
- How the mouse outlived ‘the giant’
- Astronomers find the first ‘wind nebula’ around a magnetar
- Itchy inflammation of mosquito bites helps viruses replicate
- Gamble on your opponent’s gaze if you want to win