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Researchers have developed an AI-based approach to help physicians with real-life clinical workups. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4ifNjOQ

Jumping spiders actually fall asleep, even entering a REM-like state in which they may be dreaming. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4Bv7zon

“The system is much less perfect than one would hope if we’re putting so much weight on it.” | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The new issue of #ScienceSignaling has arrived! The humble sea slug reveals how transfer RNAs become modified during behavioral habituation and learning, new work shows how a mutant form of STAT3 causes a genetically dominant immunodeficiency, and more. https://scim.ag/4ily0Eo

"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29

Malaria-carrying Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes are skillful foragers, speedily biting the skin and efficiently probing for blood vessels before feeding, then retracting and withdrawing their mouthparts—all in five distinct steps, according to a new #ScienceAdvances study. https://scim.ag/3U8ETki

Europe’s torrid summer set a gruesome record, killing more than 50,000 people in the continent’s cities from excess heat, according to research accepted for publication. https://scim.ag/4iGfcRp

Using AI to efficiently recycle scrap metal @science.org #Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new study in Science #Immunology demonstrates how mechanical sensing in gut macrophages can lead to colitis-associated visceral pain in mice. https://scim.ag/3VWgsqM

Ancient DNA connects teeth in a cave offering to people buried in faraway elite tombs. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4iqNWFs

Researchers report a newly discovered dinosaur that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops named Infernogallus jamesi—meaning “hell chicken”—that was fully adapted to a fruit-based diet. https://scim.ag/4Br6eib

Last chance: Apply for the BioInnovation Institute & #ScienceTranslationalMedicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s Health The Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize of USD 25,000 and have their winning essay published online in STM. Apply by 1 November 2026: https://bit.ly/4AOij0W

"I am committed to not letting my history define me. But I also don’t want my colleagues to assume no scientist could have a past like mine." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4i3uAXO

A #ScienceTranslationalMedicine analysis of data from stem cell transplant recipients shows how immune suppression with either cyclophosphamide or tacrolimus shapes T cell reconstitution—and has opposing effects on the risk of GVHD or infection post-transplant. https://scim.ag/4szzNuh

It's not every day, or even once in a year that we get to talk about poetry on the @science.org podcast. Listen to a truely enjoyable discussion with Phil Levin, David Hassler, and Lara Volski here: www.science.org/content/podc...

On #NationalPumpkinDay, learn more about how pumpkin, squash, and gourds would likely have gone the way of the dodo were it not for humans domesticating them. https://scim.ag/4ihMdBV

New in #ScienceRobotics: The Ultra Mobility Vehicle bicycle robot leverages its own inertia and momentum to perform jumps, track stands, wheelies and other athletic moves. https://scim.ag/4BiCjbW

Honey bees inject venom with a two-stroke stinger. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3VW12ms

Famed bat researcher Rodrigo Medellín Legorreta is pushing back against a government that views wildlife as a “nuisance.” Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yxgAvc #ScienceMagArchives

“They have found the original homeland of modern horses.” #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4zlJRZN

There are glimmers of hope amid the relentless bad news about the explosive epidemic of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. https://scim.ag/4ju8aAb

Researchers have developed a single-cell–level digital twin to simulate how different treatments can alter maternal immune pathways and affect the time to labor of individual patients. Learn more this week in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3TSbLO9

A newly uncovered fossil of a turkey-sized dino reveals it likely munched fruit like a parrot—the first-ever evidence of a dinosaur frugivore. It would have dined on the Cretaceous equivalent of cherries and peaches. #Paleontology #FossilFriday 🧪🧪 New for @science.org

Thanks to @nerdychristie.bsky.social for giving us a sample from the family art collection to illustrate this @plosone.org study showing that kids are not more creative than adults, just more confident. www.science.org/content/arti... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

“People ask, ‘We know you use Hawk-Eye to grade the umpires, but who grades Hawk-Eye?’” | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

First up on the @science.org podcast this week, News Editor Tim Appenzeller tells the tale of Photo 49, an x-ray image that is upsetting the narrative of DNA’s discovery www.science.org/content/podc...

Tam Dao helped NIH investigate Chinese scientists as an FBI agent. Now he's got a grant to find out whether foreign intervention is even a problem at US universities www.science.org/content/arti...

Researchers in Science report that many birds use vertical winds or gradual changes in wind speed or direction (wind shear) to soar, thereby reducing their cost of transport by switching from costly flapping flight to gliding flight. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yVNGFd

Exclusive: A physician-scientist recommended by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running. Instead, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. favors a researcher who studies treating mental illness with diet. https://scim.ag/4BvmHlN

A new device can detect scents and transmit them between people across distances, with the potential for long-range transmission. It marks another stage in the development of human-machine interfaces: enabling the sharing of smell. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4jRRN0D

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, whose mission is to fund bold, edgy biomedical research, is making a $41 million bet on repurposing drugs approved for other conditions and natural products such as supplements to stave off Alzheimer’s. https://scim.ag/4kaIZCP

A new slate of optogenetic tools enables scientists to finely control G protein signaling in excitable cells—providing a flexible method that might also be used therapeutically for disorders that disrupt the excitability of cells. #ScienceSignaling https://scim.ag/4z2tPV2

“It’s another reminder that you have to be really careful with predictions about how viruses that are introduced into new areas will behave,” Beer says. 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

On 20 October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of bepirovirsen to treat chronic hepatitis B infection, although the agency required monitoring of a liver enzyme and platelet levels to forestall side effects. Read more of our coverage: https://scim.ag/3PsYV6Q

This week on the @science.org podcast: in experimental settings, carrion crows make decisions 2X as fast as primates. Andreas Nieder & Elah Feder delve into what could make avian brains ultrafast and the evolutionary advantages of speedy thinking www.science.org/content/podc...

Our new biting paper. The palps have a lot to say about biting! #scienceadvances

Some good news today: A clinical trial to test Ebola Bundibugyo vaccines candidates has started. The first participant was vaccinated in Bunia in the DRC today. 🧪 #IDsky I wrote about the plans and the background a few days ago in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

A “robo ump” that calls balls and strikes in Major League Baseball makes its World Series debut this week. It has to be near-perfect. @cohenjon.bsky.social takes a closer look. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4si96tE

Last call: Apply for the BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation The Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize of USD 25,000 and have their winning essay published in Science, in print and online. Apply by 1 November 2026: https://bit.ly/4jEqg2e

2026's @science.org Top Employers: From AI to I do AI is a bigger consideration for job seekers this year, but some things don't change: scientists want to work where science and people are prized. Discover this year’s rankings: https://bit.ly/4sitlHL #SCTopEmployers

An implantable, wirelessly powered electronic device could offer a drug-free approach to managing the intertwined metabolic disorders of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4zLLnEW

My latest for @science.org: Much depends on the structure of iron in the inner core -- the maintenance of Earth's protective magnetic field and the escape of heat, to start. After decades of debate, scientists thought they finally had it down. But a surprising new result is throwing that in doubt.

Researchers find in mice that cells in the brain’s network of blood vessels also support neural circuits in the cerebellum that govern motor coordination—expanding current paradigms of the role of the brain’s vasculature in neurodevelopment. #ScienceSignaling https://scim.ag/4jxuatU

Great UK-based opportunity to join @science.org's news team as a Deputy News Editor uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5...

By applying a unique polyene scaffold, a team engineers a next-generation, broad-spectrum antifungal that selectively targets ergosterol without binding to cholesterol, avoiding severe toxicity linked to drugs like amphotericin B. #ScienceTranslationalMedicine https://scim.ag/4BhdvkB

In the 1950s, scientists tried to define "normal" humans. The problem? They couldn't find any. The Normals, a #SciencePodcast series that explores this story, has won Silver in the Science & Education: Limited Series and Specials category at The Signal Awards! Learn more: https://scim.ag/4mj0bVY

New work involving mice and patient cells reveals the mechanisms behind how neutrophils drive a rare group of autoinflammatory disorders called CAPS—and uncovers a potential new therapeutic target. #ScienceSignaling https://scim.ag/4zCDwcO

A new antifungal drug architecture combats infections in mice without the usual toxicity, a fluorescent imaging agent could enable more pinpointed removal of lung cancer tumors, and more in this week's new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine. https://scim.ag/47sabFV

In a new #ScienceReview, researchers highlight the emerging research surrounding the immune system’s role in preparing a mother’s body for pregnancy. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4i4ME3G

Breast milk antibodies show broad antiviral activity and protect mice against influenza, according to new research in #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/47fQCjZ