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How 'catchy' music is driven by rhythmic patterns

A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy. Are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?

'Collapsible scissored surfaces' complete trilogy of metamaterial design principles

Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

Fiber-optic cables detect silent whales off Svalbard by tracking pressure waves

AI spots landslide risks near power towers before failures, tests show

Mathematicians unleash multifold speed boost for supercomputer simulations of molecules

Expert studies emergence of identity-based labor organizing

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is treated with nanobubbles. What are they and how do they work?

Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years, opening new window into prehistory

Screwworm could be the first species targeted by an 'extinction drive'

Heavy rain may be driving tire pollution into Florida waterways

Pop song lyrics grew more self-focused in the US and Germany over 50 years, research reveals

Sicily remained a medieval melting pot despite major political and religious upheavals, ancient DNA reveals

Decades-long dataset shows which orcas are most at home in Puget Sound

Introducing Weather Jiu-Jitsu, a new approach to avert catastrophic weather events

The Unlucky Ones: What It Feels Like to Get Struck By Lightning

The 17 best popular science books of 2026 so far

Hold the onions – and see if they make you cry

A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock

Machine learning rediscovers equations governing ocean biogeochemistry

Earth's oldest crater really is more than 3 billion years old, new study confirms

See the Milky Way’s Galactic Bulge, Captured in Unprecedented Detail

Binary black hole signal probes event horizon region for first time

We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars

Hidden botanical treasures in war-torn Kyiv need global support, study shows

Ancient proteins hint at all-female Homo naledi burial site in Rising Star cave system

Language-based screeners may miss kids who struggle to read due to visual-processing issues

Climate warnings need to be told in tangible ways to prevent disaster

Euclid captures 60 million stars in sharpest broad view of Milky Way's core

Does the Netherlands feed the world? Study challenges a familiar view of Dutch agriculture

Geometric anti-spring works near absolute zero, suppressing vibrations below 0.185 hertz

How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Automated system detects early signs of nanomaterials toxicity

Some of the last Neanderthals were surprisingly genetically diverse

Artificial DNA tiles could deliver drugs and monitor neurons non-disruptively

New giant wormlion fly species identified on the southern slopes of the Himalayas

More people today have a stronger belief in their own ability to shape their lives

Why female guppies prefer rare males and how this might shape evolution

Teaching with and about GenAI in classrooms

Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers

By making key signaling molecules called β-arrestins into druggable targets, scientists crack long-standing challenge

First complete map of world's seagrass offers warnings and hope for conservation

Turning low-value diamond dust into high-performance quantum materials

Top quantum computer expert claims Microsoft’s ‘topological qubit’ doesn’t hold up

How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison

A potential hindrance to fusion power may help instead

The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine