We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
Recovering these metals from mining by-products destined for waste sites could offset the need to import them from elsewhere or open new mines.
A warming climate is behind growing floods of glacier meltwater in Alaska’s capital. Scientists say it’s the new normal.
In the lab, higher temperatures during fall migration led monarchs to break their reproductive pause, increasing their risk of death.
Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.
A bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida may be melting sea stars along North America’s Pacific coast.
A trove of fossils, including a penis worm with a spiked, invertible throat, suggests this spot may have been a cradle of Cambrian evolution.
Knowing potatoes’ origin story could help future-proof the crucial crop against climate threats.
A reanalysis of satellite data shows that a 2017 Texas-to-Missouri lightning megaflash stretched 829 kilometers and lasted 7.39 seconds.
Geologists unpack why the magnitude 8.8 temblor — the sixth largest ever recorded — fomented waves that reached Japan and Hawaii but caused little damage.
