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Brought to you by New England Biolabs VOLUME 387 | ISSUE 6739 | 14 MAR 2025 Editorial Editorial Uphold US-Canada science By Rémi Quirion Read more News In Brief News at a glance Read more In Depth  |  Influenza H5N1 avian flu is spreading rapidly in Antarctica By Sofia Moutinho Expedition finds the virus in 13 bird and seal species around the Antarctic Peninsula Read more In Depth  |  Trump Administration No sign that vaccine advisers are beholden to industry By Meredith Wadman RFK Jr. has claimed conflicts of interest must be rooted out of key CDC panel Read more In Depth  |  Neuroscience Studies seek signs of consciousness before birth By Kelly Servick Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins Read more In Depth  |  Environmental Science In Ukraine, dam’s destruction sets off a ‘toxic time bomb’ By Richard Stone Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants Read more In Depth  |  Marine Science Oceans’ trenches are home to ‘incredible’ diversity By Phie Jacobs In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone Read more In Depth  |  Trump Administration NIH kills existing grants on transgender issues By Sara Reardon Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research Read more In Depth  |  Paleoanthropology Face to face with the first known Western European By Ann Gibbons At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe Read more Feature Imperfect sounds By Cathleen O’Grady Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky Read more Insights Perspective  |  Cancer Making sense of fat in cancer By Estela Jacinto A lipid chaperone enables sensing of an essential fatty acid to drive tumor growth Read more Perspective  |  Ecology Reading palms to characterize islands By Anna J. Holmquist, Rosemary G. Gillespie Rattan palms illuminate the drivers of biodiversity in tropical Asia Read more Perspective  |  Geophysics How does Antarctic ice deform? By Bryan Riel A deep-learning model infers large-scale dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves Read more Perspective  |  Developmental Biology Tunneling through cardiac jelly By José Luis de la Pompa Membrane projections from muscle cells enable signaling in the developing mouse heart Read more Policy Forum  |  Artificial Intelligence Large AI models are cultural and social technologies By Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, et al. Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past Read more Books et al.  |  Review RoundUp Science at Sundance 2025 By Valerie Thompson, Gabrielle Kardon, et al. Read more Letter Support PhDs building deep-tech ventures By Theo Diamandis, Josué J. López, et al. Read more Letter The problem with AI dialogue at scale By Ehsan Nabavi, Faranak Hardcastle, et al. Read more Letter The problem with AI dialogue at scale—Response By Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, et al. Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Yury Suleymanov, Sacha Vignieri, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Madeleine Seale, Yury Suleymanov, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Research Article  |  HEART DEVELOPMENT Tunneling nanotube–like structures regulate distant cellular interactions during heart formation By Lianjie Miao, Yangyang Lu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION Direct sensing of dietary ω-6 linoleic acid through FABP5-mTORC1 signaling By Nikos Koundouros, Michal J. Nagiec, et al. Read more Research Article  |  IMMUNOLOGY Identification of antigen-presenting cell–T cell interactions driving immune responses to food By Maria Cecilia Campos Canesso, Tiago Bruno Rezende de Castro, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MICROBIOLOGY Trypanosome doublet microtubule structures reveal flagellum assembly and motility mechanisms By Xian Xia, Michelle M. Shimogawa, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MICROBIOLOGY Evolutionary adaptations of doublet microtubules in trypanosomatid parasites By Matthew H. Doran, Qingwei Niu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Excited-state configuration of nitroarenes enables oxidative cleavage of aromatics over alkenes By Wesley J. Olivier, Piotr Błyszczyk, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CHIRAL ELECTRONICS Circularly polarized electroluminescence from chiral supramolecular semiconductor thin films By Rituparno Chowdhury, Marco D. Preuss, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Environmental effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction by warfare in Ukraine By O. Shumilova, A. Sukhodolov, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PIEZOELECTRICS Piezoelectricity in half-Heusler narrow-bandgap semiconductors By Yi Huang, Fu Lv, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PALEONTOLOGY Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration By Ruoshuang Li, Liliana D’Alba, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ATMOSPHERE Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters By Elizabeth Leon-Palmero, Rafael Morales-Baquero, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BIOGEOGRAPHY Island geography drives evolution of rattan palms in tropical Asian rainforests By Benedikt G. Kuhnhäuser, Christopher D. Bates, et al. Read more Research Article  |  COSMIC DUST Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy By Xiangyu Zhang, Gregory M. Green Read more Research Article  |  SUSTAINABILITY Geological resource production constrained by regional water availability By Kamrul Islam, Keitaro Maeno, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ICE SHELVES Deep learning the flow law of Antarctic ice shelves By Yongji Wang, Ching-Yao Lai, et al. Read more Careers Working Life After the flood By Muhammed Rashid Read more FIRST RELEASE Read accepted papers posted online ahead of journal publication View all First Release Sign up for ScienceAdviser Science’s free daily newsletter delivers exclusive reporting and analysis as well as the latest science news, commentary, and research. Sign up to delve deeper into what matters most in Science and science. 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