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Food prices are increasing almost everywhere. Disruptions and declines in food production owing to climate extremes are part of the reason1,2. But our analysis of global…

December 9, 20254 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHuman Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report FindsA major new study lays out…

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over…

Nature, Published online: 09 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03739-5The question of where eddies come from is immortalized in verse, and an earwig emerges remarkably unscathed from inside a…

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone:…

The British scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 83, became the world’s leading authority on the behaviour of African elephants and played a vital part…

An illustration of antibodies (pink) binding to a flu virus (brown).Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo LibraryBiologists achieved a landmark in protein design last year: using artificial intelligence…

Technology reporter Karen Hao started reporting on artificial intelligence in 2018, before ChatGPT was introduced, and is one of the few journalists to gain access to…

At this time of year when stress levels are high, we can find ourselves being sent over the edge by frustrating post office queues, infuriating traffic…

Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall Avery (2025)In 2019, Kevin Hall, a physicist turned nutrition…