- September 22, 2025
What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare
The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies Peter Turchin Beresta Books (2025)
A Chinese AI tool can manage chronic disease — could it revolutionize health care?
Estimate suggest more than 180 million older people in China live with chronic diseases.Credit: Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty A Chinese
The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?
‘God’s influencer’ Carlo Acutis was canonized on 7 September by Pope Leo XIV. Acutis was known for his use of
Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)
YATSI fellows visiting NKT Photonics in Birkerød, Denmark.Credit: Tom Jersø/Danish Academy of Technical Sciences As early-career researchers navigate increasingly complex
Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02818-x How the five-fold symmetrical bodies of starfish and other echinoderms evolved is a
Different flames
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s
Inside a mosquito factory
There’s an unusual factory in Curitiba, Brazil. It’s producing mosquitos by the millions, all to combat the diseases these insects
Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image?
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W.
Why scientists are flocking to Substack
Adapted from Filo/Getty Like many epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic, Katelyn Jetelina turned to social media to help keep people
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Long-term exposure to extreme heat events accelerates the body’s ageing process and increases