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Freshwater species face widespread human pressures, but where those pressures affect biodiversity has remained poorly understood.
New Science research maps 45 threats across more than 21,000 freshwater species, revealing hotspots of impact and helping guide conservation and management efforts where they are most urgently needed.
Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/4jH5Vtm
ALT A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) rests beside a forest stream in Bratsigovo, Bulgaria. Freshwater species face widespread human pressures, but where those pressures affect biodiversity has remained poorly understood. Research mapping 45 threats across 21,490 freshwater species reveals hotspots of impact, helping guide conservation and management efforts where they are most urgently needed. Photo: Guy Edwardes/NPL/Minden Pictures
If you think one spider is scary, how about more than 1000? 🕷️
On #Halloween, learn more about this 2022 @ScienceAdvances research that revealed essential amino acid motifs in spider silk by analyzing genotypes of 1098 spider species. scim.ag/4ziIQSx
ALT 1000 spider silkomes: Linking sequences to silk physical properties
By studying sea slugs in the lab, researchers have determined how structural changes in molecules called transfer RNAs accompany behavioral habituation, an elemental form of learning. @SciSignal scim.ag/3UiULAO
Poetry and other art forms can play a vital role in conservation by giving emotional and cultural meaning to scientific evidence, argue Phillip Levin and David Hassler in a new #ScienceBooks essay.
Learn more: scim.ag/4yMAwtk
About 130 million years ago the first flowering plants emerged, eventually bearing a dazzling array of fruits that would grow alongside the dinosaurs. But researchers have long questioned whether dinosaurs ever made these earliest fruits a main course.
Now, a toothless, turkey-size oddity with a parrotlike beak may be the first known dinosaur frugivore.
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.
The anatomy bears a striking resemblance to modern parrots, the authors say. Learn more: scim.ag/47HABDz @NewsfromScience
ALT The first dinos that only ate fruit munched like parrots Toothless, turkey-size oddity may have evolved alongside the emergence of flowering plants
Premature birth may do more than interrupt brain development—it may fundamentally alter how the cerebellum matures into early childhood, according to a new study in Science.
The findings reveal how the timing of birth shapes brain cell development and neural connections, offering new insight into the lasting neurodevelopmental effects of prematurity.
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Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have developed a self-powered, finger-worn interface that converts fingertip movement directly into wireless communication signals. scim.ag/3WVys4S
In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️, journalist Mark Peplow looks at recent technological improvements in destroying forever chemicals—and how feasible it is to deploy them.
🎧 Listen here: scim.ag/3UU12mE
New work in @SciSignal shows how a mutant form of a protein named #STAT3 causes a genetically dominant immunodeficiency, providing crucial insights into a signaling pathway critical for immune responses. scim.ag/48ksP2E
Science is publishing an Erratum for the May 2025 Research Article “Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery.” scim.ag/3WcEoq3
In a new #SciencePolicyArticle, researchers look at Jamaica’s experience with 2025’s Hurricane Melissa as a case study that reveals how extreme weather and disaster spending can trap climate-vulnerable countries in a cycle of recovery borrowing and underinvestment in future climate resilience.
Learn more: scim.ag/3WccRF6
A new study in @SciImmunology demonstrates how mechanical sensing in gut macrophages can lead to colitis-associated visceral pain in mice. scim.ag/4ytUjxp
A newly resurfaced photo taken by Rosalind Franklin—photo 49—shows she was aware of the helical structure of DNA and explains why her published image—photo 51—does not have indications of her understanding of its shape.
Learn more in the latest episode of the #SciencePodcast🎙️: scim.ag/4BpAwly
The NOSTER & Science Magazine Microbiome Prize rewards innovative research by early-career investigators on the functional roles of the microbiota in human or veterinary health and disease.
Apply by 14 February 2027: bit.ly/4yHVbii
ALT The image shows a blue rectangular logo with the words "Noster Science Microbiome Prize" in bold, white letters.
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New article in @ScienceMagazine, with Janet Freilich, Kasper Dinkla & Ingmar Meijer, quantifying the gap between claims & disclosure in drug patents & suggesting broad claims are used as strategic "moats" science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
🎉 Congratulations to Gioele La Manno, winner of the 2026 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his innovative experiments that have uncovered intricate layers of organization in the brain’s lipids—and have deciphered how these fatty molecules shape the diversity of brain cells.
Learn more: scim.ag/4yQ0tIv
Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.
The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.
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Two proteins that permeabilize mitochondria promote cell death through distinct mechanisms.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4iHh5gH
In a unique human challenge study, researchers interrogate how preexisting immunity and antibodies against the four serotypes of #dengue influence viremia, T cell responses, and immune activation in a safe and controlled setting. @ScienceTM scim.ag/4yPtDHV
Although cancer is a common cause of death in domestic cats, little is known about the range of cancer genes in cat tumors, and how this range might compare with the oncogenome in people.
Researchers in Science have sequenced cancer genes in 493 samples from 13 different types of feline cancer and matched healthy control tissue, gaining a clearer picture of the cat oncogenome and comparing the genes to known cancer-causing mutations in humans.
Learn more on #NationalCatDay: scim.ag/4yK4cHD
