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SCIENCE & SOCIETY
Plants, algae and fungi can now be named online and in English. Read “Botanists et al freed from Latin, paper.”

Thomas Libby, Evan Chang-Siu, Pauline Jennings, Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab & CiBER/UC Berkeley

LIFE
Videos and robots show how reptiles use their tails to balance in midair. See “Measuring the leap of a lizard.”

SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC BLOG
Climate-related natural disasters are on the rise. Learn more in “Insurance payouts point to climate change.”

ATOM & COSMOS
Cassini images give a ringside view of Saturn’s moons Titan and Dione. See “Saturn moons spied from the side.”