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Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy…

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03737-7A survey of people at risk of exposure to natural disasters, and great balls of fire, in our weekly dip…

November 24, 20252 min readVolcano Erupts after Lying Dormant for 12,000 Years, Sending Scientists ScramblingThe Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine…

Nearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.What…

Will computers ever match or surpass human-level intelligence — and, if so, how? When the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), based in Washington…

November 25, 20254 min read‘Saving Room’ for a Big Thanksgiving Dinner Can Be Bad for Gut HealthSkipping meals before a big holiday feast probably isn’t the…

Just a few minutes from the turquoise waters of Kenya’s Kilifi Creek, a world away from the tourists enjoying their time on the estuary, a team…

The work of COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago and Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva must continue at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey.Credit: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/GettyThe 30th United…

November 25, 20252 min readU.S. Launches Apollo-Style Mission to Harness AI and Big Data for Scientific DiscoveryA new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by…

That number will stay fixed for ever in public memory: 23,000 people died because Boris Johnson resisted locking the country down in time. As Covid swept…