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Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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The November issue of #ScienceImmunology is out!

This month's cover highlights how B cells can acquire antigens from large malarial parasites and recruit different types of CD4 T cell help, which could inform future vaccine designs for malaria. https://scim.ag/4oTNJMn
This month’s cover is a pseudocolored and digitally altered scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrograph of Plasmodium sporozoites (pale purple) attached to Ighg2A10 B cells (bright pink) at one end.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Rachit Dubey and Jiacheng Miao, winners of the 2025 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award for their innovative work that asks fundamental questions at the intersection of life and social sciences.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hIfANa; https://scim.ag/47ve0Lm
Rachit Dubey Jiacheng Miao
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"Policy-makers need a sounder understanding of which climate-related risks pose a threat to the financial system and macroeconomy, as well as the potential channels through which those risks operate," write William Pizer and James Stock in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4hVSnqX
"Could a climate-related shock … trigger a recession?" - William Pizer and James Stock
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"I was late learning about science … For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers. But I have been able to close the gap—and that is something to be proud of." #CelebrateFirstGen https://scim.ag/4nBoBJr
A conceptual illustration of a person with a smaller version of themselves inside their head walking to a bright open door. Text is: From homeless to Ph.D.: How I found my way into research.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New research finds that the illegal trade of fins from four threatened shark species persisted in the Hong Kong market from 2015 to 2021.

Learn more in this week's issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/47Hs03u
Great white sharks on the water’s surface near Gansbaai, South Africa.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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"Planning Miracles by Jon Cohen—a veteran journalist at Science—introduces readers to the world of pandemic preparedness at a chaotic time for the field."

Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/47CczJx
Cover of Planning Miracles
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Fat storage in the body relies on specialized structures called lipid droplets. In a new Science study, researchers identified the microprotein adipogenin as a regulator of adipocyte lipid droplet size, revealing a key mechanism in lipid homeostasis.

Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nFEGO7
Lipid droplet growth is orchestrated by the seipin complex, which provides a structural platform for droplet nucleation and expansion. The microprotein adipogenin fine-tunes seipin’s conformation, remodeling its architecture to regulate lipid storage capacity. This modulation results in the formation of fewer but larger lipid droplets, revealing a key mechanism in lipid homeostasis.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This week's new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out!

Researchers leverage a "bottom-up" discovery approach to design mRNA vaccines for tuberculosis, an atlas maps out gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease at a single-cell resolution, and more. https://scim.ag/43T6EPf
The cover shows kidney tissue from a patient with lupus nephritis, with B cells in green, the m6A demethylase fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) in red, a subunit of the vacuolar H+-ATPase in white, and nuclei in blue.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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How does a single cuckoo species evolve eggs that mimic those of many different hosts?

In a new Science study, researchers report genomic data that reveal a complex geographic mosaic of cuckoo-host coevolution.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4nEZIfY
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Don’t miss this week’s issue of #ScienceSignaling!

New discoveries about an enigmatic, cancer-linked mutation could redefine understanding of the kinome, a study reveals how immune cells are recruited to inflammatory sites in psoriasis, and more. https://scim.ag/3LkFGtC
The image shows H&E-stained inflamed mouse ear skin, showing accumulated leukocytes.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In a new #ScienceReview, researchers highlight recent advances in the design, characterization, modeling, and fundamental understanding of porosity that have enabled breakthroughs across the landscape of energy technologies. https://scim.ag/3LkoODa
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Do you have what it takes to win Science’s #DanceYourPhD competition?

We want you to top last year’s food-themed frolic from the Helsinki chemist who dressed up as a chili pepper. Or maybe you can get #AI to dance on your behalf? Learn more: https://scim.ag/3LuVObX
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Aquarium hijinks provide the strongest evidence yet that sharks love to play.

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November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"If we are to rebuild our scientific enterprise … that means cleaning up our house. Policies to forbid ghostwriting and strong sanctions for researchers who violate those policies would be a good place to start," writes Naomi Oreskes in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3JB7k4U
"… turning a blind eye to malfeasance in our ranks gives the public legitimate reason to distrust our work." Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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"For me, success in retirement has involved mapping out a realistic plan that is both enjoyable and academically fulfilling." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/47iicOq
An illustration of a man sitting at a desk in front of a crowd, with the hedline: Transitioning to ‘emeritus professor’ wasn’t always easy. Here’s how I adjusted.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Scientists have developed a framework that can enable a team of cooperative aerial robots to navigate tight spaces and obstacles at high speeds while carrying cable-suspended loads.

Learn more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3Ld8Hr1
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Are implantable, living pharmacies within reach?

A 2024 #SciencePerspective looked at the potential of biohybrid-based medicine, where cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients. https://scim.ag/4quAxza #ScienceMagArchives
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps.

Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
(A) An adult female in the field on Sicyos angulatus. (B) Back view of an adult female reared on cucumber, whose hindleg organs are covered with fungal hyphae (arrowheads). (C) Magnified image of the hindleg organ. (D to L) Morphology of hind tibia of adult male [(D) to (F)], immature adult female [(G) to (I)], and mature adult female [(J) to (L)]. [(D), (G), and (I)] Brightfield images. [(E), (H), and (K)] Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. [(F), (I), and (L)] Magnified SEM images. (M to O) Peculiar behavior of egg-laying adult female. After laying each egg (M), the female rhythmically scratches the hyphae-covered hindleg organ with tarsal claws of the opposite hindleg (N) and then rubs the egg surface with the claws in a skillful manner (O). Also see movie S1. (P to R) Egg mass covered with fungal hyphae at 0-day (P), 3-day (Q), and 10-day (R) intervals after oviposition. Reddish color of 10-day eggs reflects the body color of developing nymphs inside.
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Through an extensive investigation using over 20 complementary analytical techniques, researchers identify Spongiophyton as one of the earliest undisputed lichens in the fossil record.

Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4oHMxeU
An artistic reconstruction of the fossil lichen Spongiophyton.
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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What makes us feel "fight or flight" may be less adrenaline and more of something else—a hormone that seeps out of our bones.

Learn more on #Halloween: https://scim.ag/4hDR7sw
A line of skeletons in running positions, with text: Hormone secreted by bones may help us escape danger
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"[Marine laboratories] have long nurtured generations of scientists … and precipitated discoveries that have advanced modern science. Yet they now face an uncertain future" write Susan Fitzpatrick and Jane Maienschein in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4ocWdOC
"These laboratories are … an important scientific culture." - Susan Fitzpatrick and Jane Maienschein
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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🎉 Cheng Lyu is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work in understanding how neural circuits assemble with such remarkable precision during development.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4onaxEE
Cheng Lyu
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The 28 March earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, caused fatalities across a broad swath of the country and beyond.

This special issue of Science features papers exploring the risk and reasons behind the anomalously fast, sustained rupture. https://scim.ag/3JnMTbO
A Buddha statue lies face down in rubble in this photo taken a week after the 28 March earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM