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RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 26 November 2025 Soil produced by the gradual breakdown of rock forms the planet’s thin but crucial ‘skin’. Analyses of a tectonically active landscape…

November 26, 20253 min readMars Has Lightning, Scientists ProveThe presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the Red…

Earlier today I set a puzzle which is extremely hard to answer if you are not a soap bubble.The four townsFour towns are situated at the…

Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03451-4Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda.

November 26, 20253 min readMysterious Fossil Foot Belonged to Ancient Human that Lived Alongside ‘Lucy’Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus…

For those who hanker for the limelight, be careful what you wish for: shooting to stardom as a lead singer really does raise the risk of…

Afrodi sat on the very edge of her seat. They were here, they were finally here. Like the rest of her team, her eyes were glued…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.For millions of Americans, Thanksgiving is simply not Thanksgiving without turkey. The bird…

Just over 500m years ago life on Earth got souped-up, going from simple single-celled organisms to sophisticated multicellular lifeforms. The Cambrian explosion produced an array of…

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03592-6In 1995, two papers reported long-sought proof of an exotic state of matter — with applications in fields as diverse…