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These 3D-printed objects can tell you if they’re being used properly

Objects can now warn you if you're using them wrong — without any electronics inside.

A good night's sleep may help adolescents thrive in school and with friends

Sleep beats screen time and exercise for helping anxious teens succeed in school.

Jump tests can help predict athlete injury risk

Yale's jump test spots injury risk in seconds, replacing hours of screening.

The Fast Lane: 3 Ways Geothermal Companies Can Get More Heat

Deeper geothermal wells could unlock 13x more clean energy, meeting global demand twice over.

New biosynthetic pathway could expand production of high-value bio-based oils

Scientists found a plant pathway that makes special fatty acids for eco-friendly industrial oils.

Q&A: What have decades of eradication efforts taught us about the New World screwworm?

Scientists stopped a devastating fly by releasing sterilized males that mate but cannot produce

Family ties shape social lives of bull sharks

Adult bull sharks choose to socialize with relatives — a first for shark science.

Skin-like test models could help improve medical devices for people of all skin tones

A Finnish lab built fake skin models in 3 tones to test if medical devices work equally well for

Bones are much more dynamic than scientists once believed. They even have a daily rhythm

Your skeleton remakes itself every single day, with breakdown in the morning and rebuilding at

New catalyst design selectively suppresses competing hydrogen reaction in ammonia synthesis

New catalyst boosts eco-friendly ammonia production by stopping unwanted hydrogen gas from forming

How a unique environment sets Australian chocolate apart

Microbes make Australian cocoa taste unique, giving local growers a premium market edge.

Incentives to sleep boost college students' grades, new study finds

Researchers paid students $4.75 per night to sleep more — and grades jumped.

Molecular orbitals imaged in 3D, opening path to femtosecond videos

Scientists can now make ultrafast videos of molecules at the atomic scale.

Perennial bioenergy grasses begin rebuilding Midwest soil carbon lost to maize

Soils under new bioenergy grasses hold 20% more carbon than maize fields after just 5 years.

Marine carbon removal technology that turns carbon dioxide in seawater into 'stone' for permanent storage

Scientists turn seawater CO2 into stone for permanent storage, cutting energy use by 54%.

Implant design helps fight ovarian cancer from the inside

A new implant stayed functional for 70 days while fighting ovarian cancer better than current

Quantum fluid reveals hidden states that can be switched with a magnetic field

Researchers achieved a 60-year goal: a stable quantum fluid that works at warmer temperatures and

After the Palisades and Eaton fires, research offers new answers for communities as they rebuild

Scientists tested over 6,000 soil and 900 seawater samples to give fire survivors clear answers

Electrocatalytic method could purify wastewater by converting pollutants into recoverable polymers

New electrocatalytic tech turns wastewater pollutants into valuable polymers without toxic oxidants.

NASA's PUNCH sharpens solar storm forecasting in first test

NASA's new space weather satellite predicted a solar storm's arrival to Earth within 30 minutes