NATURE MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 6, 2025

Volume 647 Issue 8088

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Brain Development’ – Mapping the distribution and diversity of cells in the growing brain.’

Artificial brains with less drain

Biologically inspired electronic neurons could boost the efficiency of artificial-intelligence systems.

Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health

People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.

Secret route to warm cosmic ‘inflation’: the nuclear force

Modelling shows how the infant Universe might have stayed warm and dense during its primoridal expansion.

Forests’ misty breath sustains crops in distant lands

The moisture emitted by forests travels across national borders to provide precipitation to far-away fields.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 17, 2025

Edel Rodriguez's “Mayor Mamdani” | The New Yorker

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani”

The Mamdani Era Begins

His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

Dick Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism

For years before taking office, the former Vice-President appeared less dogmatic than he was.

The Dishy Operatics of Lily Allen’s Breakup Album

On “West End Girl,” all the gritty bits are there: messages with a husband’s mistress, the discovery of a cache of sex toys.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – NOVEMBER 7, 2025 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘A Massacre Foretold’ – The Tragedy of El Fasher’

For some time now, El Fasher in Sudan has been a city beyond the reach of journalists. But the haunting satellite image on our cover this week, of smoke billowing from fires near El Fasher’s airport, told its own story as starkly as anything that could be reported from the ground.

Other satellite images showed clusters of burned-out vehicles, and what appeared to be pools of blood beside piles of bodies on the ground. A massacre was under way that could be seen from space.

The last major city in Darfur to fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, but has “descended into an even darker hell”, senior UN officials warned last week. This key moment in the two-and-a-half-year-long civil war has unfolded in plain sight with minimal intervention from the international community, unless you count the United Arab Emirates, which has been arming the RSF paramilitaries.

Spotlight | The Andrew formerly known as a prince
Stupidity and self-entitlement sank King Charles III’s disgraced younger brother – and the royal reckoning may not be over yet, writes Stephen Bates

Technology | What if the internet just … stopped working?
Could everything suddenly go offline and if so, how? Aisha Down goes inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

Interview | Margaret Atwood puts the world to rights
At 85, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian society? Lisa Allardice finds out

Opinion | World leaders: Cop30 could be your great legacy
With the US backing away from the climate crisis, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former British prime minister Gordon Brown

Culture | Back to black with Lynne Ramsay
The Scottish film director burst on to the scene with Ratcatcher and terrified audiences with We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her latest film stars Hollywood darling Jennifer Lawrence, but it doesn’t flinch from the dark side of family life, finds Amy Raphael

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 2025

Trump Officials to Cut Flights at 40 Major Airports if Shutdown Continues

The plan, which officials said was intended to help air traffic controllers, could force the cancellation of thousands of flights.

As Mamdani Surges Ahead, Schumer Risks Finding Himself Left Behind

The rise of Zohran Mamdani comes at a complicated moment for Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who is in danger of looking out of touch back home.

A Skeptical Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Economic Agenda in Question

President Trump has used his sweeping global tariffs as an economic tool and a political cudgel. A decision invalidating them could hamper his power.

Russia Seems Close to Its Biggest Capture of a Ukrainian City Since 2023

The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has long coveted.