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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…

November 18, 20252 min readFive Essential Reads on Plastic, Power, and PollutionIf you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more…

My kids’ appetite for stickers is endless. I find them constantly, on the mirrors in our house, on their school planners and water bottles, and occasionally…

We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Sometimes the smallest detail can change the way you think…

English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books,…

There’s a famous line from a John Ford western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Mark Lee Gardner…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.In Toni Morrison’s Sula, the title character and Nel are…