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Planets

Analyze This: Neptune’s cloud cover syncs up with the solar cycle

Telescope observations hint how sunlight-driven chemistry may boost cloud cover on our solar system’s farthest planet.

Climate

Some tree leaves are finding it too hot for photosynthesis

Earth’s ongoing fever threatens to push entire forests toward this heat limit — and possible death.

Plants

Young corn leaves can ‘smell’ danger

As they mature, these leaves lose their ability to detect threatening scents.

Plants

Scientists Say: Fertilize

This word describes both a stage of sexual reproduction and the agricultural practice of adding nutrients to soil.

Environment

This ecologist is looking at the Amazon’s past to save its future

Carolina Levis researches how local communities influence the Amazon. She’s interested in how Indigenous knowledge can help protect the rainforest.

Animals

Let’s learn about why turkeys are dinosaurs

Modern birds are the only dinosaurs that survived an apocalyptic extinction event 66 million years ago.

Math

A twisty mystery about Möbius strips has been solved at last

Turning to paper and scissors helped one mathematician finally figure out just how short the twisted loops can be.

Brain

Scientists Say: Deep brain stimulation

Through wires implanted in a person’s brain, this medical treatment can help treat various conditions.

Planets

In a first, astronomers spot the aftermath of an exoplanet smashup

Infrared light from a distant star appears to be leftovers of an impact between a pair of Neptune-sized worlds.