Fixing the science of digital technology harms | Science
Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts
How does cancer affect motivation? | Science
Inflammatory cytokines hijack a brain circuit to cause apathy in cancer
A natural defense against plant disease | Science
Wild citrus plants contain a natural defense against a devastating bacterial disease
Reformation by light | Science
Light-driven chemistry enables three-dimensional printing of recyclable polymer parts
Closing the gap in the neutrino mass | Science
New measurements make an important step toward demystifying the fundamental particle
AI drug development’s data problem | Science
The future of drug discovery may be artificial intelligence (AI), but its present is not. AI is in its infancy in the field. To help AI mature, developers need nonproprietary, open, large, high-quality datasets to train and validate models, managed by ...
After April Fools’ Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos
“Outrageous” cuts claim leaders of five NIH institutes, as well as offices throughout FDA and CDC
Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding—and no one can fill it
Other countries, foundations, international groups are unable to replace billions lost in U.S. cuts
India is a global warming ‘hole,’ and scientists aren’t sure why
Despite its extreme heat waves, the country’s decadeslong warming trend amounts to half the global average
How do mpox outbreaks start? Dead baby monkey provides important clue
“Landmark” study fingers fire-footed rope squirrel as a reservoir of fatal disease
Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail?
Poor soils and dry climate could undermine effort to expand rice growing by 1 million hectares, experts warn
50-year-old bioweapons treaty is dangerously flawed, researchers say
Without enforcement mechanisms, the Biological Weapons Convention risks leaving the world “completely unprepared”
Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis | Science
Presently, mechanistic paradigms in catalysis generally posit that the active species remains either homogeneous or heterogeneous throughout the reaction. In this work, we show that a prominent industrial process, palladium (Pd)–catalyzed vinyl acetate ...
Exogenous RNA surveillance by proton-sensing TRIM25 | Science
Exogenous messenger RNAs (mRNAs) require cellular machinery for delivery and translation but also encounter inhibitory factors. To investigate their regulation, we performed genome-wide CRISPR screens with in vitro–transcribed mRNAs in lipid ...
Nonlinear sound-sheet microscopy: Imaging opaque organs at the capillary and cellular scale | Science
Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy has revolutionized biology by visualizing dynamic cellular processes in three dimensions. However, light scattering in thick tissue and photobleaching of fluorescent reporters limit this method to studying thin or ...
Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop | Science
Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute to the transient process of human conscious perception. ...
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation | Science
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the geochemical record, most conspicuously the Great ...
Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change | Science
Insects dominate animal species diversity yet face many threats from anthropogenic drivers of change. Many features of insect ecology make them a challenging group, and the fragmented state of knowledge compromises our ability to make general statements ...
‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos
In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings
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