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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…

Nature, Published online: 01 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03914-8Bibliophile Andrew Robinson reveals 10 essential science reads from the past year.

In the early days of social media, posting a rant about the latest episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” on Myspace felt like the ultimate Thursday night activity.…

The MaskBruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich Yale Univ. Press (2025)“Masks have signified hope and despair, courage and cowardice, a sense of community and a sense…

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…

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.