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Scientists create textiles with just the right weave and yarn to keep biting insects at bay.

A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.

Study of a reverberation that rang around the world reveals a new type of geological event fuelled by global warming.

Study links this phenomenon to the brain region that controls movement.

Discovery could help to identify ways to prevent relapse into opioid usage.

A controversial theory about Rapa Nui has been conclusively debunked. Plus, what Harris and Trump said about science in their debate and the reviewers churning out suspicious reviews for personal gain.

A mysterious afterglow in a pandemic side project leads to a new method for observing proteins that interact in living cells.

Jane Kilcoyne and colleagues took action after calculating that their biotoxin chemistry lab produced 4000 kilograms of waste per year, none of which was recyled.

The Polaris Dawn crew are testing a new spacesuit design and running 36 experiments while orbiting Earth.

Large-language-model trial suggests facts and evidence really can change people’s minds.

Daily dose of the common medication metformin preserved cognition and delayed decline of some tissues.

Presenting a series of interferometric images of R Doradus, this study reveals prominent convective structures on the surface of this giant evolved star that have a timescale of about one month.

A molecular aggregate formed in a two-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite superlattice with a near-equilibrium distance is shown to have a near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield like that of single molecules, despite being in an aggregated state.

A study demonstrates the application of Floquet Hamiltonian engineering to ultracold trapped polar molecules to realize interactions relevant to quantum metrology and many-body physics.

BRCA1–BARD1 directly promotes double-strand break repair by stimulating long-range DNA end resection pathways.

Using cross-areal mapping of axonal projections in the mouse neocortex, we identify the subtype-specific developmental dynamics of extratelencephalic neurons and show the functional transcriptional programs driving extratelencephalic neuron diversity.

Harnessing precise molecular kinetics, a 14-bit, energy-efficient dot product engine is realized that unlocks neuromorphic hardware’s potential for core computations.