Rubella and measles: The beginning of the endgame | Science
Benchmarks must be established and progress tracked to set a global target and take action
Beyond wear and tear at the joint | Science
Bile acid metabolism meets glucagon-like peptide 1 signaling in osteoarthritis
Catalysis at the crossroads | Science
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis work concurrently in a chemical process
Archaea go multicellular under pressure | Science
A microbe from the Dead Sea switches to a tissue-like form when compressed
Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals | Science
Loss of biodiversity threatens the study of tool use and other cultural behaviors in animals
‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos | Science
Study is the first to show an animal combining different calls to make new meanings
News at a glance | Science
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Don’t quit the long game | Science
Living cells that produce biofuel; robots that assist factory workers; intelligent machines that guide drug discovery—these technologies are “deep” in that they achieve something extraordinary—often thought impossible—and push society forward. Indeed, so-...
Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population
Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory
Stellarators, once fusion’s dark horse, hit their stride
Multiple companies aim to generate power by corraling plasma with twisted magnets
International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance
Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans
The AI revolution comes to protein sequencing
New systems can identify unknown proteins in samples from diseased tissue, the environment, and archaeological sites
Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?
DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results
NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards
Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety | Science
Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eating is controlled by a neural pathway from the peri–...
Running a genetic stop sign accelerates oxygen metabolism and energy production in horses | Science
Horses are among nature’s greatest athletes, yet the ancestral molecular adaptations fueling their energy demands are poorly understood. Within a clinically important pathway regulating redox and metabolic homeostasis (NRF2/KEAP1), we discovered an ...
Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins | Science
Breakdown of every transmembrane protein trafficked to lysosomes requires proteolysis of their hydrophobic helical transmembrane domains. Combining lysosomal proteomics with functional genomic datasets, we identified lysosomal leucine aminopeptidase (...
Chromatin accessibility landscape of mouse early embryos revealed by single-cell NanoATAC-seq2 | Science
In mammals, fertilized eggs undergo genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming to generate the organism. However, our understanding of epigenetic dynamics during preimplantation development at single-cell resolution remains incomplete. Here, we developed ...
Complex-frequency excitations in photonics and wave physics | Science
Closed, lossless optical cavities are characterized by a Hamiltonian that obeys Hermiticity, resulting in strictly real-valued resonance frequencies. By contrast, non-Hermitian wave systems are characterized by Hamiltonians with poles and zeros at ...
Scientists scramble to track LA wildfires’ long-term health impacts
Urban infernos spew a unique brew of toxic smoke and ash—with unknown effects on the risk of diseases such as cancer