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Nature, Published online: 27 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00621-wAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about “reading for pleasure” and “the joy of reading”. This is not a…

Shelly Romero has early memories of going to her local supermarket and picking pulp fiction off the shelves. “We were very working class; my mom was…

The Wake of HMS ChallengerGillen D’Arcy Wood Princeton Univ. Press (2025)Similar to the global voyage of naturalist Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle in the 1830s,…

February 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRobot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millenniaA Microsoft Research study suggests glass…

The prophet Ezekiel once claimed to have seen four beasts emerge from a burning cloud, “sparkling like the colour of burnished brass”. Each had wings and…

Legalised assisted dying should “gradually” be extended to dementia sufferers, the author Ian McEwan has said.McEwan was “shocked by the snow-drilling attempts” by those opposed to…

Myriad, Microscopic and MarvellousGeertje Dekkers Reaktion (2025)In 1674, microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made “his most sensational discovery”, writes historian Geertje Dekkers in her revealing, finely illustrated…

Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being…

Islands in InfinityDerek Ward-Thompson et al. London Stereoscopic (2025)This spectacular book of photographs of the Universe is dedicated to the late astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore,…