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As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking…

The record-breaking 252mph winds of Hurricane Melissa that devastated Caribbean islands at the end of October were made five times more likely by the climate crisis.…

The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States. Funding cuts, academic lay-offs and vaccine-sceptic policies have widely been seen as…

For half a century, psychedelics largely belonged to the cultural left: anti-war, anti-capitalist, suspicious of the church and state. Now, one of the most politically consequential…

Christmas may be associated with the aromas of oranges and mince pies but our towns and cities also boast special scents during the rest of the…

December 25, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmBizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic OceanDynamic mounds made of methane at a depth…

Scientists are developing a simple blood test to predict who is most at risk from the world’s most common inherited heart condition.Millions of people worldwide have…

Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our…

About 800 years ago, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at the University of Oxford, challenged the scientific thinking of the day, using his understanding of the…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Download the Nature Podcast 24 December 2025In this episode:00:40 What a trove of potato genomes reveals…