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Aerial view of streets and elevated metro line

Physics

Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise

Traffic noise has many frequencies, making it hard to suppress. A new barrier with movable folds can change its acoustic properties in response to traffic patterns

News

Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

News

Man sits at betting machines

Physics

How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them

News

The Milky Way

Space

We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy

News

Penney

Technology

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

Features

Art of auto rickshaw

Technology

Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way

Culture

A moon base

Space

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

Comment

A woman reading

Space

Culture picks: Read your way into (almost) any science subject

Culture

A man in a lab coat at a desk

Humans

Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that

Comment

Model of universe structure

Space

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

About half the normal matter in our universe had never been observed – until now. Two teams have finally seen it by combining millions of faint images into one

News

Technology

Light-filtering paint cools your home when exposed to hot sun

News

Humans

Nobel prizes would be better without all the fame and fortune

Comment

Technology

We can’t ever know whether or not our universe is a simulation

Analysis

Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

News