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It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-grid and clued-in…

Elusive Cures Nicole C. Rust Princeton Univ. Press (2025)Over the past few decades, brain research has produced effective treatments for pain, insomnia, postpartum depression, paralysis and…

How Not to Die (Too Soon)Devi Sridhar Viking (2025)Public health is often a contested subject. Devi Sridhar, a US–UK health scholar of Indian origin, is acutely…

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has agreed to sell Italian energy company Eni more than $1 billion worth of power from its first fusion reactor. The power plant…

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03050-3Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Selecting a book to read can sometimes be overwhelming: countless books are published every year, and there are countless more published years ago that we haven’t…

August 30, 20255 min readTurn the Page on Summer: August’s Essential Book PicksCheck out this collection of nonfiction and fiction books recommended by Scientific AmericanBy Brianne…

Blake Lively’s name has appeared in headlines more often than it has appeared on movie screens recently, but she’ll be a big part of the upcoming…

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After the tragic 2023 passing of Gabe Hudon, a longtime McSweeney’s writer, editor, and friend, Hudson’s mother, Sanchia Semere, endowed a new award in his honor.…