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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up inside

Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?

Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants

Green hydrogen has a hidden problem and scientists may have fixed it

Study of 40,000 cases links Somalia migration mainly to water scarcity

Using high-energy sparks to degrade pollutants without generating waste

Green turtle nests may bury 'plastic rocks' and endanger the species

Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS

New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics

Mitochondria can reshape lipid storage in cells by repurposing a protein-insertion complex

Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida

Undergrads expand the chemical toolbox for cancer drugs

Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal

Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer

Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood?

Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds

What does it mean to compute? Framework maps hidden computations running inside natural dynamic systems

Tracking wildlife trafficking in the age of online marketplaces

Smart materials and drug delivery could exploit lipid molecules that reorganize at drying interfaces

A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion suns went unseen—until we caught its echo

Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

Single-celled organism becomes multicellular via three different pathways

Turning over a new leaf in analyses of natural products

Scientists lay out what we do and don't yet know about moths and butterflies

The Vibes Have Been Off in the US for Decades

Tackling the global tuberculosis crisis: An emerging class of antibiotics offers hope

Laser technique can quickly check mRNA packaging in lipid nanoparticles

How much would you pay for climate-friendly bread?

How RNA binding selectivity arises from disordered regions

The Birth of Light

Getting closer to the stars: Fink, a French tool for tracking transient phenomena across the observable universe

An acoustic telemetry network reveals the connectivity of the gilthead seabream in the Mediterranean

Nanochannel method makes ion membranes twice as strong for clean energy

Shark deterrents found to reduce fisheries loss

Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

Atomic precision unlocks smarter oxygen reduction catalysts

It's never too late to learn a language: Adults and kids bring different strengths to the task

Improved short-term sea level change predictions achieved with better AI training

When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

Birds achieve sweet success: What adaptations to high-sugar diets reveal about metabolism

Hotspots of accelerated North American bird decline linked to agricultural activity

Rice gene discovery could cut fertilizer use while protecting yields

How Horses Make Two Sounds at Once

Here’s how honeyeaters and other birds thrive on sugary diets

Department of Homeland Security detains Columbia student identified as neuroscience researcher

Dogs are more like toddlers than cats when it comes to helping humans

Brown recluse spiders rare in Florida and reluctant to bite, study finds