Science
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A statistical test for the benefits of personalizing interventions
From medicine to marketing to social sciences, the promise of tailoring interventions to individuals is undeniable. However, practical applications force weighing personalization’s potential benefits...
Prison release is an opportunity for addiction research
The hidden logic of emotion
Internal emotion models unify research across species and spark fresh ideas for treating anxiety and trauma
Neil Shubin wants NAS to stay relevant
New president of the beleaguered National Academy of Sciences discusses its future and the precarious state of U.S. science under Trump
Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients
Plant tropisms enable roots to navigate complex soils by responding to directional environmental cues. Biological decay, although central to nutrient cycling, also creates microbially active and poten...
Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal
Andean leaf-eared mice ( Phyllotis vaccarum ) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to...
Leaping out of the water: Aerial-aquatic locomotion with flapping wings
Wing-propelled diving birds flap their wings to move through air and water, yet the wing morphology and kinematics that enable this behavior remain poorly understood because of the difficulty of colle...
Neural circuits for valence updating in social memory
Social animals recognize familiar conspecifics and selectively avoid harmful ones. As social relationships shift, continuous updating of social valence is essential, yet the underlying neural mechanis...
A single freeze cycle redirects iron mineral transformation
Polycrystalline ice formation concentrates mineral nanoparticles into liquid boundaries between growing ice crystals. Here we show that minutes of freezing dictate iron mineral fate over subsequent mo...
Relativistic collapse of the classical triple bond in the CBi <sup>−</sup> molecular ion
The conventional framework for chemical bonding between main-group elements involves separate σ and π orbitals to describe multiple bonds. However, relativistic effects mix these orbitals in molecules...
Prioritizing a vital river’s restoration
A phase microscope for quantum gases
Coherence properties are central to quantum systems and are at the heart of phenomena such as superconductivity. In this work, we studied coherence properties of an ultracold Bose gas in a two-dimensi...
Indium-free perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with tin oxide recombination layer and electrodes
Indium-based transparent conductive oxides are widely used as electrodes and recombination layers in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, yet their scalability is constrained by indium scarcity and...
Erratum for the Research Article “Granzyme A from cytotoxic lymphocytes cleaves GSDMB to trigger pyroptosis in target cells” by Z. Zhou <i>et al</i> .
Uranus and Neptune may not be ‘ice giants’ after all
A growing number of theories propose Uranus and Neptune are rocky worlds
Erratum for the Research Article “Awake Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Support Spatial Memory”
C1q and immunoglobulins mediate activity-dependent synapse loss in the adult brain
Complement component 1q (C1q), the initiator of the classical complement cascade, mediates synaptic elimination in development and disease, yet the triggers for its deposition on synapses remain uncle...
A note to my younger self
What do we know about sex? <b>Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex</b> <i>Perrin Roosevelt Ireland</i> Norton, 2026. 272 pp. <b>On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction</b> <i>Lixing Sun</i> Basic Books, 2026. 368 pp.
It depends on whom you ask
The owl wars
Northern spotted owls were spared from logging. Now, scientists are making a last stand to save them from a new threat
The origin, history, and resistance architecture of an invasive urban malaria mosquito in Africa
The invasive urban malaria vector Anopheles stephensi threatens 126 million city dwellers in Africa. Controlling An. stephensi...
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia
Colonists likely introduced the disease to a more populous continent than many imagined
Transient assembly of precision-tuned platinum-skin intermetallic catalysts for fuel cells
Highly efficient catalysts require precisely engineered intricate structures, yet conventional thermodynamically controlled syntheses often involve cumbersome procedures and limited structural precisi...
Antibodies sculpt adult brain circuits
Immune cells target hyperactive neurons to eliminate synaptic connections
USDA accelerates plan to close its flagship scientific campus
Agency says closing the research center will improve efficiency, but skeptics argue it will undercut research critical to farmers