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On the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third Covid lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat down on the sofa to have sausages and chips in…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman…

There are nights when the dance floor beckons but the bones refuse. When the urge to party arrives, it may be too late to book a…

Stop Chasing HappinessFrank Martela Allen & Unwin (2025)In 2025, Nature searched for the world’s happiest PhD students, anticipating that they might be in Finland. The Nordic…

Yangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager.When the pair, who…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Venice is a city so globally famous that even those…

The Whispers of RockAnjana Khatwa Bridge Street Press (2025)In 1902, on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, a group of women reported that water was boiling…

Nature, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03996-4Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.In recent years, some of the most talked-about literary novels…