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Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do?

Nature - Feb. 20, 2026

Seattle heads back to the Super Bowl. What even is a seahawk anyway?

Scientific American - Feb. 6, 2026

Astronomers declare rare dark-sky victory over scrapped energy project in Chile

Scientific American - Feb. 2, 2026

The White House Wants an AI Fast Lane

Scientific American - Jan. 15, 2026

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

Nature - Jan. 9, 2026

AI and quantum science take centre stage under Trump — but with little new proposed funding

Nature - Dec. 19, 2025

Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes’ images

Nature - Dec. 3, 2025

Synthetic tongue rates chillies’ heat — and spares human tasters

Nature - Nov. 21, 2025

Surprise ‘tail’ found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history

Nature - Nov. 7, 2025

World’s smallest 3D bioprinter could rebuild tissue during surgery

Nature - Oct. 29, 2025

How to grow crystals when and where you want them

Nature - Oct. 24, 2025

How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities

Nature - Oct. 20, 2025

Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll

Nature - Oct. 15, 2025

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

Nature - Oct. 9, 2025

Death of a star leaves a legacy for exoplanets

Nature - Sept. 30, 2025

Liquid-crystal specs refocus with the push of a button

Nature - Sept. 2, 2025

AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer

Nature - Aug. 15, 2025

Super-efficient teamwork is possible — if you’re an ant

Nature - Aug. 15, 2025

Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic

Nature - Aug. 5, 2025

Columbia researchers eager to restart science after university’s deal with Trump

Nature - Jul. 29, 2025

Mystery food in Neanderthal diet might be maggots

Nature - Jul. 25, 2025

Biggest trial of four-day work week finds workers are happier and feel just as productive

Nature - Jul. 21, 2025

The mysterious missing ingredient in the highest-energy cosmic rays

Nature - Jul. 15, 2025

Symbolic ‘science fair’ showcases research cut by Trump team

Nature - Jul. 9, 2025

Ocean simulation game reveals how seals navigate underwater

Science - May 29, 2025

Lotions and perfume can weaken a ‘human oxidation field’ made by your skin

Science - May 21, 2025

Are you as easily fooled as AI? Depends what you see in this image

Science - Apr. 29, 2025

Astronomers spot a planetary ‘suicide’

Science - Apr. 11, 2025

Medieval manuscripts were bound in baby seal fur

Science - Apr. 9, 2025

Record-setting black hole 'echo' accidentally uncovered by high-school student

Live Science - Mar. 22, 2025

Supermassive black hole found in dwarf galaxy next to the Milky Way

Science - Mar. 11, 2025

Fast radio burst traced to the outskirts of an ancient 'graveyard' galaxy — and the cause remains a mystery

Live Science - Feb. 19, 2025

'Mathematically perfect' star system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy. Could that change its prospects for life?

Live Science - Dec. 23, 2024

Magnetic Meteorites May Explain How the Solar System Assembled

Eos - Dec. 12, 2024

The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete

MIT Technology Review - Nov. 29, 2024

This octopus-inspired adhesive can stick to just about anything

MIT Technology Review - Oct. 10, 2024

AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists

Nature - Feb. 13, 2026

NASA’s latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership

Nature - Feb. 5, 2026

Did a vaporized alien planet leave behind a strange iron ‘bar’?

Science - Jan. 15, 2026

Far-Out Exoplanet Breaks a Cardinal Rule of Astronomy

Scientific American - Jan. 12, 2026

Starless 'Failed Galaxy' Is First of Its Kind Ever Seen

Scientific American - Jan. 6, 2026

Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things

Nature - Dec. 19, 2025

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

Nature - Nov. 26, 2025

Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?

Nature - Nov. 19, 2025

Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star

Nature - Nov. 4, 2025

How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role

Nature - Oct. 24, 2025

Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side

Nature - Oct. 22, 2025

Mysterious cosmic ‘dots’ are baffling astronomers. What are they?

Nature - Oct. 15, 2025

An Earthling's guide to planet hunting

MIT Technology Review - Oct. 13, 2025

Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon

Nature - Oct. 6, 2025

Clearest gravitational-wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black-hole theory

Nature - Sept. 10, 2025

Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in?

Nature - Aug. 28, 2025

Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force

Nature - Aug. 15, 2025

Alien planet glimpsed in star’s ‘habitable zone’

Nature - Aug. 7, 2025

Lava planets’ atmospheres give away what lies beneath

Nature - Jul. 30, 2025

Meet the early-career scientists planning to leave the United States

Nature - Jul. 25, 2025

‘Immortal’ stars have an elixir of youth: dark matter

Nature - Jul. 21, 2025

Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time

Nature - Jul. 16, 2025

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus

Quanta - Jul. 11, 2025

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

Quanta - Jul. 2, 2025

Watch a robot play badminton against human players

Science - May 28, 2025

Astronomers spot a gold mine in massive cosmic flares

Science - May 2, 2025

Bizarre ‘Tatooine’ exoplanet orbits two failed stars at once

Science - Apr. 16, 2025

Bots skew social media metrics

Science - Apr. 10, 2025

A new side to dark energy steps into the light

Symmetry - Apr. 8, 2025

Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea — and possibly on the surface of the moon

Live Science - Mar. 19, 2025

UC teams with Bay Area tech company for new lab that hopes to make AI work for artists

Mercury News - Mar. 9, 2025

How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy

MIT Technology Review - Feb. 4, 2025

Hubble telescope spots 'blue lurker' star feeding off of its conjoined siblings

Live Science - Jan. 22, 2025

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Mongabay - Dec. 4, 2024

An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells

MIT Technology Review - Oct. 30, 2024

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to look for life-friendly conditions around Jupiter

MIT Technology Review - Oct. 2, 2024