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Brought to you by Science Careers VOLUME 387 | ISSUE 6729 | 3 JAN 2025 Editorial Editorial Steady going in 2025 By H. Holden Thorp, Valda Vinson, et al. Read more News In Brief News at a glance Read more In Depth  |  Infectious Diseases Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting By Jon Cohen Five years after COVID-19 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat Read more In Depth  |  Conflict Can war-torn Syria rebuild its scientific community? By Richard Stone Syrian researchers around the world begin to plan for the nation’s future, including fixing “miserable” universities Read more In Depth  |  Publishing U.S. agencies roll out free paper-access policies By Jeffrey Brainard NIH and DOE are first to act, with implementation by all set to begin by end of this year Read more In Depth  |  Archaeology Care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples By Amanda Heidt Recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal remains such as bones Read more In Depth  |  Policy Trump names AI-focused team as leaders of his science office By Jeffrey Mervis Michael Kratsios and Lynne Parker, veterans of Trump’s first term, come with technology backgrounds Read more In Depth  |  Funding Historic U.K. medical research units under threat By Cathleen O’Grady New focus on “challenge-led” funding may see decades-old institutes close, scientists warn Read more In Depth  |  Climate Science Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming By Paul Voosen Narrowing storm bands may be a surprising and dangerous new feedback of climate change Read more Feature After abandonment By Dan Charles When farmers leave their land, what version of nature takes over? Read more Insights Expert Voices Beyond misalignment of science in the news and in schools By Sibel Erduran Read more Perspective  |  Ecology Disentangling the drivers of wildfires By Jianbang Gan The risk of wildfires varies across regions with different vegetation Read more Perspective  |  Thermal Management Compressed ionic plastic crystals are cool By Josep-Lluís Tamarit, Pol Lloveras A family of materials exhibits a large thermal response at subambient temperatures Read more Perspective  |  Ecology Bat tracking across Europe By Liam P. McGuire New technology answers questions about the seasonal migration of bats Read more Perspective  |  Cancer Inherited genome instability By Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa, Geoff Macintyre Germline structural variants are a risk factor for pediatric extracranial solid tumors Read more Policy Forum  |  Climate Policy Solar geoengineering research faces geopolitical deadlock By Duncan McLaren, Olaf Corry The permissive “science first” approach has failed, but a nondeployment deal might yet enable responsible research Read more Books et al.  |  Psychology Data crumbs and sitting ducks By Jonathan Wai Our digital footprints offer potentially lucrative personality insights to the highest bidders Read more Books et al.  |  Automation Hidden human costs of AI By Dov Greenbaum, Mark Gerstein A sociologist interrogates the invisible labor that underlies “autonomous” systems Read more Letter  |  NextGen Voices NextGen Voices: 2025 and 2050, in haiku By Rayane da Cruz Albino, Yana Suchikova, et al. Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Jesse Smith, Hannah M. Isles, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Di Jiang, Bianca Lopez, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Review  |  CONSERVATION Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals By R. Keller Kopf, Sam Banks, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT GENETICS Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories By Jeffrey S. Groh, Diane C. Vik, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BIOCHEMISTRY Landscape profiling of PET depolymerases using a natural sequence cluster framework By Hogyun Seo, Hwaseok Hong, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CANCER GENOMICS Rare germline structural variants increase risk for pediatric solid tumors By Riaz Gillani, Ryan L. Collins, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MALARIA Protective antibodies target cryptic epitope unmasked by cleavage of malaria sporozoite protein By Cherrelle Dacon, Re’em Moskovitz, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PHOTORECEPTORS Direct photoreception by pituitary endocrine cells regulates hormone release and pigmentation By Ayaka Fukuda, Keita Sato, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ELECTROCHEMISTRY Tantalum-stabilized ruthenium oxide electrocatalysts for industrial water electrolysis By Jiahao Zhang, Xianbiao Fu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CALORICS Organic ionic plastic crystals having colossal barocaloric effects for sustainable refrigeration By Samantha L. Piper, Leena Melag, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ELECTRONIC MATERIALS Surface conduction and reduced electrical resistivity in ultrathin noncrystalline NbP semimetal By Asir Intisar Khan, Akash Ramdas, et al. Read more Research Article  |  GLOBAL WARMING Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo By Helge F. Goessling, Thomas Rackow, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Engineering synthetic phosphorylation signaling networks in human cells By Xiaoyu Yang, Jason W. Rocks, et al. Read more Research Article  |  EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency in male mice By Matthew N. Zipple, Daniel Chang Kuo, et al. Read more Research Article  |  NEURODEVELOPMENT Sensation is dispensable for the maturation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex By Paige Leary, Celine Bellegarda, et al. Read more Research Article  |  WILDFIRES Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades By Weiwei Wang, Xianli Wang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MIGRATION Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration By Edward Hurme, Ivan Lenzi, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Sulfenylnitrene-mediated nitrogen-atom insertion for late-stage skeletal editing of N-heterocycles By Bidhan Ghosh, Prakash Kafle, et al. 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