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New plastics designed to degrade on demand may help address global waste

Artificial membranes mimic life-like dynamics through catalytic chemical reactions

A strange ancient foot reveals a hidden human cousin

Radio wave bursts linked to onset of intense auroral storms

New universal law predicts how most objects shatter, from dropped bottles to exploding bubbles

Bilingual brains switch modes as Czech speakers process English like natives, even when it means making 'native' mistake

Nanoscale 'Bragg gratings' on photonic chips suppress noise in laser light

How phototherapy could reverse antibiotic resistance

Songbird experts put superb fairy-wren danger call on the record

Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity

Prevention alone will not save us from financial crashes, according to new study

Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds

Tiny reconfigurable robots can help manage carbon dioxide levels in confined spaces

Polymer beads generate electricity for self-charging devices using simple friction

Scientists uncover the brain’s hidden learning blocks

Desert microbes drive soil carbon sinks in arid regions, study reveals

Scientists studied 47,000 dogs on CBD and found a surprising behavior shift

Google Quantum AI realizes three dynamic surface code implementations

Devastating stellar storm seen on red dwarf star

Group 13 elements: The lucky number for sustainable redox agents?

Bird flu’s surprising heat tolerance has scientists worried

Trained to serve: Service dogs' roles are expanding to help more people

Why refugees in Australia still face barriers to good jobs

How to Really See the Stars

Polluted air quietly erases the benefits of exercise

Quantum sensor based on silicon carbide qubits operates at room temperature

New EPA rule gives oil, gas firms more time to fix equipment leaking methane

Australia passes landmark law overhauling nature protection

How to Print a Human

Rethinking retail trades: Researchers explore US proposal amid global push for investor welfare

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds

Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder

Hidden mitochondrial DNA damage may be a missing link in disease

Russian cosmodrome damaged after joint launch with US

Over 70 shark, ray species win new wildlife trade protections

X-ray movies reveal how intense lasers tear a buckyball apart

Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

CBD supplements may make dogs less aggressive over time

This simple warm-up trick instantly boosts speed and power

Why more cannabis users are landing in the ER with severe vomiting

Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil wild

Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis

Social media research tool can lower political temperature—it could also lead to more user control over algorithms

The Incredible, Unlikely Story of How Cats Became Our Pets

Watching metal crystals grow inside liquid metal: Imaging technique could boost hydrogen production

'Truly severe' floods overwhelm Southeast Asia