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Brought to you by New England Biolabs  VOLUME 387 | ISSUE 6737 | 28 FEB 2025 News In Brief News at a glance Read more In Depth  |  Trump Administration U.S. early-career scientists struggle amid chaos By Katie Langin Uncertain funding, government firings, and university distress hit the most vulnerable Read more In Depth  |  Astronomy Infrared space telescope will probe ‘inflation’ after Big Bang By Daniel Clery SPHEREx hopes to explain our “boring” uniform universe Read more In Depth  |  Public Health Tracking the toll of Sudan’s forgotten war from afar By Leslie Roberts Barred from the country, researchers use satellite imagery and models to assess destruction and death Read more In Depth  |  Climate U.S. cuts support for IPCC report By Paul Voosen U.N. climate panel meets without U.S. leadership Read more In Depth  |  Animal Research Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH lawsuit By Meredith Wadman Rodent and monkey facilities imperiled by Trump plan to slash overhead payments to research institutions Read more In Depth  |  Origin of Life Early life’s phosphorus problem solved? By Robert F. Service Minerals from volcanic rock could have supplied a key ingredient for biomolecules Read more In Depth  |  Scientific Integrity ‘Patent mills’ offer intellectual property for sale By Cathleen O’Grady Companies register bizarre designs with U.K. office and sell them to scientists to boost CVs Read more Feature Facing the past By Kata Karáth Researchers and an Indigenous Amazon nation team up to study charged ritual objects: shrunken heads Read more Insights Expert Voices Invisible matter, invisible brains? By Andy Lawrence Read more Perspective  |  Ecology Virtual reality rewrites rules of the swarm By Camille Buhl, Stephen J. Simpson Study of locusts in a virtual environment challenges models of collective behavior Read more Perspective  |  Nanomaterials Tessellated with tiny dumbbells By Brian A. Korgel Concave and convex surfaces direct nanocrystals to assemble into complex patterns Read more Perspective  |  Plant Science Outsmarted by fungi By Caroline Gutjahr A fungal pathogen fabricates phosphate starvation in plant cells to promote virulence Read more Perspective  |  Hydrogels Hot and cold hydrogel with still water By Zhaohan Yu, Shaoting Lin Carbon chains immobilize water molecules, making a hydrogel elastic across temperatures Read more Policy Forum  |  Agriculture Assessing market failures driving pesticide resistance By Zachary Brown, Dominic Reisig Some US farms’ use of transgenic Bt corn raises questions Read more Books et al.  |  Psychology Turning down the outrage By Sean M. Laurent A moral psychologist offers a framework for bridging divides Read more Books et al.  |  Public Health The air as ecosystem By Nathan H. Lents We ignore the organisms that swirl around us at our peril Read more Letter Stop regression of EU conservation laws By Carlos Javier Durá-Alemañ, José Vicente López-Bao Read more Letter  |  Outside the Tower Assessing soil health with underpants By S. Franz Bender, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden Read more Letter Protect US racial affinity groups By V. Bala Chaudhary, Sora Kim, et al. Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Kip Hodges, Corinne Simonti, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Corinne Simonti, Jesse Smith, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Review  |  CATALYSIS Hydrogenation of CO2 for sustainable fuel and chemical production By Jingyun Ye, Nikolaos Dimitratos, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PHYLOGENETICS CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments By Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, et al. Read more Research Article  |  GLACIAL CYCLES Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles By Stephen Barker, Lorraine E. Lisiecki, et al. Read more Research Article  |  METABOLISM Liver ALKBH5 regulates glucose and lipid homeostasis independently through GCGR and mTORC1 signaling By Kaixin Ding, Zhipeng Zhang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 4D marmoset brain map reveals MRI and molecular signatures for onset of multiple sclerosis–like lesions By Jing-Ping Lin, Alexis Brake, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT PATHOLOGY A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly By Pei Miao, Haijun Wang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Visualizing nanoparticle surface dynamics and instabilities enabled by deep denoising By Peter A. Crozier, Matan Leibovich, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT PATHOLOGY Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors By Carl L. McCombe, Alex Wegner, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CHEMICAL PHYSICS Quantum interference observed in state-resolved molecule-surface scattering By Christopher S. Reilly, Daniel J. Auerbach, et al. Read more Research Article  |  HYDROGELS Hydro-locking in hydrogel for extreme temperature tolerance By Xiaochen Zhang, Dong Li, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ACTINIDE CHEMISTRY Berkelium–carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene By Dominic R. Russo, Alyssa N. Gaiser, et al. Read more Research Article  |  NANOMATERIALS Curvature-guided depletion stabilizes Kagome superlattices of nanocrystals By Siyu Wan, Xiuyang Xia, et al. Read more Research Article  |  AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS Too much of a good thing: Lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt By Ziwei Ye, Christina DiFonzo, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ORGANIC AEROSOLS Nitrogen dominates global atmospheric organic aerosol absorption By Yumin Li, Tzung-May Fu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  COLLECTIVE MOTION The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts By Sercan Sayin, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOLLUSK GENETICS A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology By Zeyuan Chen, J. Antonio Baeza, et al. Read more Careers Working Life Drowning in uncertainty By Violeta J. 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