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How to throw a soccer ball

Physicists reveal how best to get speed and distance with a throw-in.

Philip Ball
News25 Jan 2006
Nature
Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pain.

Maximilian Oscar Steininger
Jonas Paul Nitschke
Claus Lamm
ResearchOpen Access06 Jan 2026
Nature Mental Health

Volume: 4, P: 165-180
Will plant biochemistry go to the ball?

Philip Rubery
Books & Arts20 Aug 1981
Nature

Volume: 292, P: 783-784
NATO calls for 'urgent work' against cyberwarfare

Attacks on Estonian networks prompt high-level discussion.

Philip Ball
News19 Jun 2007
Nature
Natural waterproofing

Philip Ball
News & Views01 Apr 2009
Nature Materials

Volume: 8, P: 250
Natural order

Philip Ball
News & Views01 Oct 2007
Nature Materials

Volume: 6, P: 719
Nature inspires colour-change gel

Chameleon polymer mimics squid and octopi.

Philip Ball
News08 Jan 2003
Nature
Nature versus Naturoid

Philip Ball
News & Views01 Jan 2009
Nature Materials

Volume: 8, P: 11
Molecular mechanisms of native ligand selectivity in catecholamine G protein-coupled receptors

The molecular basis and evolution of GPCR selectivity for chemical messengers are poorly understood. Here, authors use an interdisciplinary approach to identify mechanisms of ligand selectivity in adrenergic and dopamine receptors.

Nour Aldin Kahlous
Maiju K. Rinne
Jens Carlsson
ResearchOpen Access23 Apr 2026
Nature Communications

Volume: 17, P: 1-17
Neural circuit mechanisms underlying context-specific halting in Drosophila

Two halting mechanisms, ‘walk-OFF’ and ‘brake’, are shown to be engaged by distinct neural circuits in Drosophila, in a context dependent manner.

Neha Sapkal
Nino Mancini
Salil S. Bidaye
ResearchOpen Access02 Oct 2024
Nature

Volume: 634, P: 191-200
Photography of Bullets in Flight

PHILIP P. QUAYLE
Research14 Oct 1922
Nature

Volume: 110, P: 514-515
Great balls of what?

Philip Ball reports on new claims that the strange phenomenon of ball lightning is simply a kind of glowing candy floss spun from earth.

Philip Ball
News03 Feb 2000
Nature
A Signal-to-Noise Property of Binary Decisions

PHILIP RUDNICK
Research10 Feb 1962
Nature

Volume: 193, P: 604-605
Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on

Why revisit long-discredited claims for a source of abundant energy, asks Philip Ball? Because we are still learning how to treat pathological science.

Philip Ball
Comments & Opinion27 May 2019
Nature

Volume: 569, P: 601
Bigger not necessarily better

The mystery of how the Earth avoided freezing in its early days, when the Sun burned less ardently, cannot be solved by assuming that the Sun was bigger, Philip Ball reports.

Philip Ball
News28 Feb 2000
Nature
Heavenly body

Philip Ball explains how chemists have made the smallest possible member of the family of football-like molecules, the fullerenes.

Philip Ball
News07 Sept 2000
Nature
Hot stuff

Philip Ball reports on a new device that might help biologists make sense of the cell's intricate molecular communication networks.

Philip Ball
News16 Jun 2000
Nature
Natural mimics

Philip Ball
News30 May 2000
Nature
Natural selection acts on the quantum world

Objective reality may owe its existence to a 'darwinian' process that advertises certain quantum states.

Philip Ball
News23 Dec 2004
Nature
Great balls of fire?

E. Philip Krider
Books & Arts02 Apr 1981
Nature

Volume: 290, P: 430
Memories are made of this

A new composite material could boost the capacity of magnetic hard-disk computer memories by tenfold, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News24 Dec 1999
Nature
Lean and clean

Reducing fuel consumption by cars need not compromise on exhaust pollution, if a system under development fulfils its promise. Philip Ball investigates.

Philip Ball
News01 Sept 2000
Nature
Old Tat teaches drug smugglers new tricks

Drug designers have learned a lesson from viruses. Philip Ball investigates.

Philip Ball
News01 Dec 2000
Nature
Crunchy filling

Researchers may have spotted an elusive 'superhard' material between the layers of an atomic-scale sandwich, Philip Ball reports.

Philip Ball
News05 May 2000
Nature
The Spitak (Armenia) earthquake of 7 December 1988: field observations, seismology and tectonics

A. Cisternas
H. Philip
R. Tatevossian
Research29 Jun 1989
Nature

Volume: 339, P: 675-679
Waste not, want not

Philip Ball reports on a new catalyst that could allow fuel produced from decomposing waste to be burnt more cleanly and efficiently.

Philip Ball
News05 Jul 2000
Nature
Fresh and dry

Philip Ball finds out how a kind of sugar might help preserve things as diverse as fruit and frozen human tissue.

Philip Ball
News17 Jul 2000
Nature
Theory does not hold water

Water may seem to be simple stuff, but explanations of what holds it together have got chemists at loggerheads, reports Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News25 Feb 2000
Nature
Science must move with the times

Research cannot fulfil its social contract and reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future, argues Philip Ball in the last essay of a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today’s science system, to mark Nature’s anniversary.

Philip Ball
Comments & Opinion05 Nov 2019
Nature

Volume: 575, P: 29-31
Tales of the expected

A recent claim of water on an extrasolar planet raises broader questions about how science news is reported, says Philip Ball

Philip Ball
News17 Apr 2007
Nature
Is there such a thing as a 'safe technology'?

As scientists debate the risks of nanotech, Philip Ball warns that the major impacts of emerging technologies have rarely been spotted in advance.

Philip Ball
News15 Nov 2006
Nature
Tainted by association?

Richard Doll's links with industry are disconcerting but hardly scandalous. And they don't make him a villain, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News15 Dec 2006
Nature
The last Renaissance scientist

Einstein should be remembered for more than relativity and wacky hair, says Philip Ball

Philip Ball
News13 Sept 2005
Nature
Not a tangled web

Using quantum computers to search the web for information about fly-fishing in Paraguay might be less of a juggling act than physicists had thought, Philip Ball reports.

Philip Ball
News06 Sept 2000
Nature
Going over c

Philip Ball explains why the foundations of physics are not quaking at suggestions that the ultimate speed limit ñ the speed of light ñ might have been broken. .

Philip Ball
News20 Jul 2000
Nature
Reversible switching of the environment-protected quantum spin Hall insulator bismuthene at the graphene/SiC interface

Tilgner et al. demonstrated the formation of the quantum spin Hall insulator bismuthene on SiC, intercalated underneath a protective graphene layer. A hydrogen-induced orbital filtering effect is the driving force behind this reversible phase transition.

Niclas Tilgner
Susanne Wolff
Philip Schädlich
ResearchOpen Access04 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-8
Maddox by his successor

Philip Campbell
News17 Apr 2009
Nature

Volume: 458, P: 985-986
Multivariate analysis of disorder in metal–organic frameworks

Structural disorder in materials is challenging to characterise. Here, the authors use multivariate analysis of atomic pair distribution functions to study structural collapse and melting of metal–organic frameworks, revealing powerful mechanistic and kinetic insight.

Adam F. Sapnik
Irene Bechis
Thomas D. Bennett
ResearchOpen Access21 Apr 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-13
Lighting up the pyramids

Tiny pyramids could soon bring flat electronic screens into sharper focus, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News04 Sept 2000
Nature
Voodoo economics

Financial monitoring has borrowed a few ideas from science, but they may be the wrong ones, argues Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News07 Jun 2006
Nature
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water..."

A survey of evidence for the 'memory' of liquid water casts little light on its putative role in homeopathy, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News08 Aug 2007
Nature
Galactic roundabout

Stars whizzing in rapid circles hint that a huge black hole lies at the centre of our galaxy. Philip Ball investigates.

Philip Ball
News21 Sept 2000
Nature
Freudian quips

Mathematicians' jokes betray a deep-seated anxiety about the size of their proofs, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News04 Feb 2005
Nature
Pay your money, take your chance

Fatalities are an inevitable part of human spaceflight, and space tourism companies will have to face up to it, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News02 Aug 2007
Nature
Buckyball superconductors hot up

The carbon football could become the hottest of superconductors, reports Philip Ball. .

Philip Ball
News30 Nov 2000
Nature
Snow falling on cedars

Philip Ball explains why forests might exacerbate rather than mitigate global warming.

Philip Ball
News09 Nov 2000
Nature
Arthur Eddington was innocent!

The trend for debunking science's simple narratives can be overdone, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News07 Sept 2007
Nature
Peacock's tail printing

A new material that can be colour printed but wiped clean again and again takes its cue from the peacock's iridescent tail, explains Philip Ball.

Philip Ball
News21 Jan 2000
Nature
Beckham in for a surprise on Mars

Putting spin on a ball would send it swerving the wrong way on the red planet.

Philip Ball
News21 Feb 2003
Nature
All-solid-state Li–S batteries with fast solid–solid sulfur reaction

By using lithium thioborophosphate iodide glass-phase solid electrolytes in all-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries, fast solid–solid sulfur redox reaction is demonstrated, leading to cells with ultrafast charging capability, superior cycling stability and high capacity.

Huimin Song
Konrad Münch
Quanquan Pang
Research15 Jan 2025
Nature

Volume: 637, P: 846-853