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Brought to you by Science Careers VOLUME 391 | ISSUE 6780 | 1 JAN 2026 Editorial Editorial Resisting AI slop By H. Holden Thorp Read more News In Depth  |  Artificial Intelligence AI threatens to upend online social science research By Cathleen O’Grady Researchers stuck in arms race as increasingly sophisticated models evade detection tools Read more In Depth  |  Research Funding Bell Labs 2.0? Silicon Valley bets on science By Adam Rogers Billionaire-backed Episteme aims to free research from bureaucracy. History shows that’s a tall task Read more In Depth  |  Astronomy Sun-size lens could reveal alien continents and oceans By Daniel Clery Telescopes far beyond Pluto could use the Sun’s gravity to magnify a distant planet Read more In Depth  |  Human Evolution Study of South Asian genomes illuminates roots of milk drinking By Michael Price Natural selection was at work—but only in populations with no alternative to dairy Read more In Depth  |  Scientific Community Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference By Celina Zhao, Michael Greshko Software bug leads to exposure of peer-review records for 10,000 papers Read more In Depth  |  Climate Science Trump moves to break up leading U.S. climate center By Hannah Richter White House budget director says Colorado institution is a source of “climate alarmism” Read more Feature Man in the middle By Jocelyn Kaiser NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has struggled to convince observers he has the agency’s best interests in mind—and is truly in charge Read more Commentary Expert Voices Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health By Seth Berkley Read more Perspective  |  Evolution Divergent destinies of polymorphism By Siddharth S. Gopalan, Todd A. Castoe Lizards maintain or lose color variation through interactions between genetics, selection, and plasticity Read more Perspective  |  Cancer Genetic resistance to leukemia By Francisco Caiado, Markus G. Manz A genome-wide association study identifies a genetic variant that reduces the risk of leukemia Read more Perspective  |  Astronomy Two views of a rogue planet By Gavin A. L. Coleman A collaboration between ground and space observations unveils a rogue planet Read more Perspective  |  Biochemistry Lighting the spark of aptamer data science By Günter Mayer The application of data science to aptamer discovery reveals latent features of enriched libraries Read more Policy Forum  |  Climate Policy Translating climate science into legal standards: Lessons from the Milieudefensie v. Shell case By Simon Dietz, Joana Setzer, et al. Courts struggle with applying results of integrated assessment models to individual companies Read more Books et al.  |  Marine Science The future of marine fisheries By Francisco Werner A journalist warns of widespread harm, but better science and management practices point to a robust prognosis Read more Books et al.  |  Science and Society Rethinking intersex interventions By Amanda Lock Swarr Surgeries do more harm than good for those who do not meet binary sex expectations, argues a scholar Read more Letter Australian rare earth plans imperil biodiversity By Yanyun Yan, Jonathan R. Rhodes Read more Letter Australia’s harmful fossil fuel approvals By Hannah Thomas, Hugh Possingham, et al. Read more Letter Next steps for WTO fisheries agreement By Sebastian Villasante, U. R. Sumaila, et al. Read more Reviews Review  |  CELL BIOLOGY Quantifying host-microbe interactions with bacterial lineage tracing By Ian W. Campbell, Karthik Hullahalli, et al. Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Henk A. Dijkstra, Yury Suleymanov, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Corinne Simonti, Peter Stern, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Research Article  |  MIGRATION Genomic and morphometric evidence for Austronesian-mediated pig translocation in the Pacific By David W. G. Stanton, Aurelie Manin, et al. Read more Research Article  |  APTAMERS SPARK-seq: A high-throughput platform for aptamer discovery and kinetic profiling By Guoyan Luo, Jia Song, et al. Read more Research Article  |  STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Asynchronous subunit transitions prime acetylcholine receptor activation By Mackenzie J. Thompson, Christian J. G. Tessier, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PALEONTOLOGY Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” By Paul C. Sereno, Evan T. Saitta, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BEHAVIOR Neural basis of cooperative behavior in biological and artificial intelligence systems By Mengping Jiang, Linfan Gu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PROTEIN DESIGN De novo design of small molecule–regulated protein oligomers By Qihan Jin, Yukai Wang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SOLAR CELLS Limiting phosphonic acid interlayer–perovskite reactivity to stabilize perovskite solar modules By Chengbin Fei, Yadong Zhang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  HEMATOLOGY Inherited resilience to clonal hematopoiesis by modifying stem cell RNA regulation By Gaurav Agarwal, Mateusz Antoszewski, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT SCIENCE ARF3-mediated auxin signaling is essential for sex determination in cucumber By Lijie Han, Min Li, et al. Read more Research Article  |  POLYMORPHISM Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards By Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, et al. Read more Research Article  |  POLYMORPHISM The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game By Ammon Corl, Alex Guzman, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SPECTROSCOPY Local fields reveal atomic-scale nonadiabatic carrier-phonon dynamics By Sergej Neb, Dong-bin Shin, et al. Read more Research Article  |  2D MATERIALS Experimental evidence for nodal superconducting gap in moiré graphene By Jeong Min Park, Shuwen Sun, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis By Carlos Bernabeu, Sergio Adalid, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT GENETICS Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley By Morten E. Jørgensen, Dominique Vequaud, et al. Read more Research Article  |  EXOPLANETS A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object By Subo Dong, Zexuan Wu, et al. 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