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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
In a #ScienceImmunology Review from earlier this year, researchers discuss how interactions between the nervous and immune systems could impact neurological disorders and allergy-related behaviors like food avoidance. https://scim.ag/3Y1hcsr
Cross-regulation between the nervous system and type 2 immunity
The nervous and type 2 immune systems regulate each other via cytokines and neurotransmitters, suggesting previously unidentified therapeutic avenues.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In a #ScienceImmunology Review from earlier this year, researchers discuss how interactions between the nervous and immune systems could impact neurological disorders and allergy-related behaviors like food avoidance. https://scim.ag/3Y1hcsr
Raindrops can bounce and then roll down a slope, picking up sand as they go.
The sand-covered balls transport up to 100 times more sediment downhill than drops that don’t roll, a fact that could help make more realistic computer models of soil erosion and land change. https://scim.ag/4p7ghBE
The sand-covered balls transport up to 100 times more sediment downhill than drops that don’t roll, a fact that could help make more realistic computer models of soil erosion and land change. https://scim.ag/4p7ghBE
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Raindrops can bounce and then roll down a slope, picking up sand as they go.
The sand-covered balls transport up to 100 times more sediment downhill than drops that don’t roll, a fact that could help make more realistic computer models of soil erosion and land change. https://scim.ag/4p7ghBE
The sand-covered balls transport up to 100 times more sediment downhill than drops that don’t roll, a fact that could help make more realistic computer models of soil erosion and land change. https://scim.ag/4p7ghBE
A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.
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Learn more: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ #ScienceMagArchives
The Sundiver mission will show how thin solar sails could accelerate spacecraft to the Sun’s focus, beyond the Solar System. https://scim.ag/4pUlnmf
Sun’s gravitational lens could reveal alien planets’ surfaces
Bold concept calls for sending telescopes 10 times farther than Pluto
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December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Sundiver mission will show how thin solar sails could accelerate spacecraft to the Sun’s focus, beyond the Solar System. https://scim.ag/4pUlnmf
The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/3MGESjx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/3MGESjx
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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December 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/3MGESjx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/3MGESjx
Of the hundreds of millions of people living with IBS worldwide, about two-thirds are women.
Now, researchers have identified a biological pathway in the guts of mice that may help explain this disproportionate toll—a finding that could one day lead to new treatments. https://scim.ag/3YD8H78
Now, researchers have identified a biological pathway in the guts of mice that may help explain this disproportionate toll—a finding that could one day lead to new treatments. https://scim.ag/3YD8H78
Why are women more likely to get irritable bowel syndrome? New study provides clues
Cells in the guts of female mice respond to estrogen by increasing pain signaling, researchers find
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December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Of the hundreds of millions of people living with IBS worldwide, about two-thirds are women.
Now, researchers have identified a biological pathway in the guts of mice that may help explain this disproportionate toll—a finding that could one day lead to new treatments. https://scim.ag/3YD8H78
Now, researchers have identified a biological pathway in the guts of mice that may help explain this disproportionate toll—a finding that could one day lead to new treatments. https://scim.ag/3YD8H78
A subset of patients with NSCLC that have a specific ALK gene fusion in their tumors may need to target a third pathway for treatments to be effective.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/44GnjWP
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/44GnjWP
Cancer-associated fibroblasts confer ALK inhibitor resistance in EML4-ALK–driven lung cancer by concurrent integrin and MET signaling
Secretory and cell-contact signaling from tumor stromal fibroblasts drive drug resistance in lung cancer.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A subset of patients with NSCLC that have a specific ALK gene fusion in their tumors may need to target a third pathway for treatments to be effective.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/44GnjWP
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/44GnjWP
From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported earlier this year in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported earlier this year in Science.
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO
Deer urine glows under ultraviolet light and may pop out of the dark like highway reflectors for other deer.
Deer urine glows like holiday lights in the breeding season
“Photoluminescence” may be a way for the animals to communicate with each other
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December 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Deer urine glows under ultraviolet light and may pop out of the dark like highway reflectors for other deer.
Edwin Hubble’s measurement of a galaxy beyond the Milky Way led to the discovery of cosmic expansion.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective that looks back at a century of modern cosmology: https://scim.ag/3LfETua
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective that looks back at a century of modern cosmology: https://scim.ag/3LfETua
A century of modern cosmology
Edwin Hubble’s measurement of a galaxy beyond the Milky Way led to the discovery of cosmic expansion
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December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Edwin Hubble’s measurement of a galaxy beyond the Milky Way led to the discovery of cosmic expansion.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective that looks back at a century of modern cosmology: https://scim.ag/3LfETua
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective that looks back at a century of modern cosmology: https://scim.ag/3LfETua
A 2015 #ScienceAdvances study found that #Christmas trees once had a second set of genes—a feature that allows one copy to change what it does without affecting the organism’s survival. https://scim.ag/48HQKua
Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants
A new phylogenomic approach reveals that conifer genomes are duplicated despite rare polyploidy among extant species.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A 2015 #ScienceAdvances study found that #Christmas trees once had a second set of genes—a feature that allows one copy to change what it does without affecting the organism’s survival. https://scim.ag/48HQKua
A protein that cuts double-stranded DNA contributes to chromosome scrambling in human cancer cells.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4aKry7p
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4aKry7p
Chromosome shattering in cancer
A protein that cuts double-stranded DNA contributes to chromosome scrambling in human cancer cells
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December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A protein that cuts double-stranded DNA contributes to chromosome scrambling in human cancer cells.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4aKry7p
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4aKry7p
When tasked with playing games of visual telephone, #AI systems tend to converge on stock photo defaults such as sporting celebrations, pompously decorated dining rooms, sunset shorelines, a rainy romantic evening in Paris, Gothic cathedrals, and opulent bedrooms. https://scim.ag/4pKh7FG
When creating images, AI keeps remixing the same 12 stock photo clichés
In a game of visual telephone, models converge on ecstatic sports wins, romantic nights in Paris, and other cultural chestnuts
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December 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When tasked with playing games of visual telephone, #AI systems tend to converge on stock photo defaults such as sporting celebrations, pompously decorated dining rooms, sunset shorelines, a rainy romantic evening in Paris, Gothic cathedrals, and opulent bedrooms. https://scim.ag/4pKh7FG
Plant pathogens use secreted effectors to trick plant cells into providing sugary treats.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3YFL8dT
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3YFL8dT
Tricks for treats
Plant pathogens use secreted effectors to trick plant cells into providing sugary treats
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December 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Plant pathogens use secreted effectors to trick plant cells into providing sugary treats.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3YFL8dT
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3YFL8dT
In a #ScienceReview from earlier this year, researchers provide a critical evaluation of research linking glymphatic dysfunction with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qhg28c
Glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease: A critical appraisal
Thirteen years after the initial publication defining the glymphatic system, we critically reappraise the role of its dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our understanding of glymphatic function ...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In a #ScienceReview from earlier this year, researchers provide a critical evaluation of research linking glymphatic dysfunction with Alzheimer’s disease.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qhg28c
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qhg28c
Santa may be putting together his annual list, but here at Science we’ve been tabulating something else: our favorite online news stories of this year. https://scim.ag/4qiuj4r
Our favorite science news stories of 2025
A mix of Science’s most loved and most read items of the year
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December 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Santa may be putting together his annual list, but here at Science we’ve been tabulating something else: our favorite online news stories of this year. https://scim.ag/4qiuj4r
This week’s new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine has arrived! https://scim.ag/4b1XAvS
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This week’s new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine has arrived! https://scim.ag/4b1XAvS
Researchers in a recent #ScienceReview examine the influence that biological sex exerts on the immune system and immune-related diseases.
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Sex differences in tissue-specific immunity and immunology
Biological sex exerts a substantial influence on the immune system and immune-related diseases. Males are more susceptible to the acute effects of viral disease and certain cancers, whereas females ex...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Researchers in a recent #ScienceReview examine the influence that biological sex exerts on the immune system and immune-related diseases.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/48YKHAe
Learn more: https://scim.ag/48YKHAe
A new #ScienceAdvances study shows that commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean over the past century reduced the genetic diversity—and possibly the evolutionary fitness—of the region’s humpback whales. https://scim.ag/4anxPpM
Humpback whale genomes reflect the increased efficiency of commercial whaling
Humpback whale genomes reflect shifts in whaling practices and their potential impact on the animals’ adaptive capacity.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A new #ScienceAdvances study shows that commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean over the past century reduced the genetic diversity—and possibly the evolutionary fitness—of the region’s humpback whales. https://scim.ag/4anxPpM
Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task. https://scim.ag/3MXso70
Bell Labs 2.0? Silicon Valley bets on science with no strings attached
Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task
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December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task. https://scim.ag/3MXso70
Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have discovered a genetic footprint that helps explain herding dogs’ mental acuity and keen social skills. https://scim.ag/3KKA5Nr
Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
The whole-genome sequences of herding dogs reveal how selection has sculpted the unique behavioral traits.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have discovered a genetic footprint that helps explain herding dogs’ mental acuity and keen social skills. https://scim.ag/3KKA5Nr
"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life ..."
Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en
Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life ..."
Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en
Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en
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“Is Europa truly dead?” a planetary scientist asked himself after some disheartening results for the moon. “Or should we broaden our perspective on other mechanisms that can sustain life?” (Spoiler: he chose the latter)🌱🦠
Read my last #AGU2025 story (for now!) at @science.org: tinyurl.com/4dd67hhw
Read my last #AGU2025 story (for now!) at @science.org: tinyurl.com/4dd67hhw
Life in Europa’s ocean could feed on rocks’ radioactive decay
After series of bleak findings, theory sparks hope for alternative energy source within Jupiter’s intriguing moon
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December 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Is Europa truly dead?” a planetary scientist asked himself after some disheartening results for the moon. “Or should we broaden our perspective on other mechanisms that can sustain life?” (Spoiler: he chose the latter)🌱🦠
Read my last #AGU2025 story (for now!) at @science.org: tinyurl.com/4dd67hhw
Read my last #AGU2025 story (for now!) at @science.org: tinyurl.com/4dd67hhw
This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling has arrived! https://scim.ag/48TEWoK
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling has arrived! https://scim.ag/48TEWoK
Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.
NIH leader resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study
Agency may be expanding list of pathogens subject to dangerous “gain-of-function” regulations
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December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.