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Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak

Prove it or lose her: The new rules for advertising to women

MIT study finds Earth’s first animals were likely ancient sea sponges

A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles

Beam-spin asymmetry study puts proton models to the test

On moonshots and Minneapolis

Schools on the front line as Australian children grapple with trauma

The unseen environmental cost of a fleeting film set

Raincoat no longer waterproof? A textile scientist explains why—and how to fix it

The screech of peeling sticky tape conceals a rapid train of tiny shockwaves, ultrafast imaging shows

What Do You Get When You Cross a Tardigrade with a Space Pioneer?

Galápagos tortoise once believed extinct is now roaming free

Why wealth changes how we think about fair prices

How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

Do alien exoplanets have exomoons and exorings?

Stunning 3D maps reveal DNA is structured before life “switches on”

American Heart Association warns 60% of US women will have cardiovascular disease by 2050

Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life

How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

New engine uses the freezing cold of space to generate power at night

Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

'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