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A bright, sun-splashed future for renewable energy
Three international renewable energy pioneers have been selected for the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award
Recognizing my worth
Researchers caught in the crossfire as firms and U.S. government grapple over AI safety
Tumultuous Fable 5 takedown spurs fears for open research
Undead models and shrouded black holes
Structural insights into spectral tuning and retinal exchange in cone visual pigments
Color vision in catarrhine primates relies on red-, green-, and blue-sensitive cone pigments that share an 11- cis -retinal chromophore but differ in absorption...
Innate factors and ontogeny determine nonbreeding areas of migrant songbirds
Migratory birds connect ecosystems worldwide and often show connectivity between breeding and nonbreeding areas, meaning that individuals have nonbreeding (“wintering”) locations close to others from...
The enduring pursuit of science in America
Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems. Imagine this body wo...
Iron-catalyzed active lipid peroxides drive ultrafast collective cell death in blooming algae
Harmful algal blooms, the most severe ecological hazards worldwide, terminate abruptly within a few days. In this work, we identified that iron-catalyzed active lipid peroxides predominantly trigger i...
Structural N- and O-glycans revealed by high-resolution cryo-EM analysis of tubular mastigonemes
The chemical complexity and nontemplated biosynthesis of glycans have posed considerable challenges for establishing sequence-structure relationships. Here we report cryo–electron microscopy structure...
Nano–electron volt Fourier-limited transition of a single surface-adsorbed molecule
High-resolution spectroscopy allows the probing of weak interactions and subtle phenomena. Although such measurements are routinely performed in the gas phase and in crystalline materials, studies of...
Dartmouth’s AI summer and what came next
The 70th anniversary of the first AI workshop invites reflection on the technology’s wider legacies
Industrial-scale nanocrystalline Ni–Mo–MgO catalysts for hybrid reforming of waste to fuels
Strategies for lowering carbon emissions from hydrocarbons and waste must overcome the challenges related to catalyst durability and the presorting of waste. Reforming low-value carbon sources with ca...
Genetic effects put into context
The physiological state of neurons controls the expression of gene variants linked with psychiatric disease
Single-cell multiomics of neuron activation reveals context-specific genetics of brain disorders
Most causal variants for neuropsychiatric disorders (NPD) remain unknown. A major hurdle is that disease variants may act in specific contexts, such as during neuronal activation, which is difficult t...
Coordinated demise of harmful algal blooms
Iron-mediated programmed cell death spreads through colonies of toxic cyanobacteria
Erratum for the Report “Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity” by C. Jia <i>et al</i> .
Impact heating and the hidden Hadean
The nature of Earth’s crust during the Hadean eon [≥4.03 billion years ago (Ga)] is uncertain. Numerical models of early Earth geodynamics emphasize the control of mantle temperature but generally con...
Has NSF slashed research to support tech initiative?
Belated shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants
Superconducting phase diagram of multilayer square-planar nickelates
The discovery of superconductivity in square-planar nickelates has offered a rich materials platform to explore the origins of high-temperature superconductivity. However, experimental investigations...
Bacteria share proteins to survive antibiotics
Cell-to-cell cooperation through membrane vesicles enhances antibiotic persistence
Illuminating the molecular basis of human daylight vision
Photopic vision, including fast motion and color perception in daylight, is mediated by cone opsins, specialized G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs). Despite sharing the same chromophore, the three re...
Ubiquitin-like proteins NEDD8 and SUMO2 control epithelial homeostasis, regeneration, and inflammation
Stratified epithelial differentiation involves transcriptional and proteomic remodeling. Here, multiomic profiling implicated ubiquitin and related posttranslational networks in differentiation dynami...
Scientists to spend 8 months drifting in Arctic ice
The Tara Polar Station , set to launch next month, aims to probe biology of the central Arctic Ocean
Rise in papers using powerful medical research tool raises concern
TriNetX’s built-in analysis tools fuel easy publications reporting misleading results
Diversification of angiosperm reproductive strategies predated the end-Cretaceous extinction
Angiosperm reproductive evolution is traditionally linked to the end-Cretaceous biotic crisis and subsequent ecological restructuring. Here, we report diverse and unexpectedly large diaspores (dispers...