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Brought to you by Science Careers VOLUME 391 | ISSUE 6784 | 29 JAN 2026 Editorial Editorial China turns the tables in biotech By H. Holden Thorp Read more News In Depth  |  Trump Administration The great government brain drain By Jeffrey Mervis A Science analysis shows more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s in the federal government left or lost their jobs after President Donald Trump took office Read more In Depth  |  Seismology Earthquake sensors buried in the quietest spot on Earth By Hannah Richter Beneath the South Pole, two seismometers will probe the planet’s interior and monitor movement of Antarctic ice Read more In Depth  |  Latin America Oil helped build Venezuela’s science. Can oil now revive it? By Humberto Basilio After Maduro, Venezuelan researchers hope to rebuild the industry that supported the country’s scientific workforce Read more In Depth  |  Publishing Leading preprint server clamps down on ‘AI slop’ By Nicola Jones First-time posters to arXiv now need an endorsement from an established author Read more In Depth  |  Biophysics Magnetic fields cause fluorescent proteins to dim By Robert F. Service Effect could lead to MRI-like diagnostics and switchable, remote-controlled drugs Read more Feature Into the deep By Elie Dolgin As humans return to the Moon, researchers are trying to understand—and thwart—the biological toll of deep-space radiation Read more Commentary Expert Voices The ‘undone science’ of opioid overdose deaths By John Strang Read more Perspective  |  Behavioral Ecology Should I stay or should I go with them? By Peter M. Todd, Thomas T. Hills Social forces underpin human foraging Read more Perspective  |  Aging Muscle stem cells trade functionality for survival By Julia von Maltzahn During aging, stem cell persistence is favored over functionality, resulting in delayed responses to injury Read more Perspective  |  Electronic Materials Solving the ferroelectric scaling trilemma By Piush Behera, Suraj S. Cheema A robust oxide ferroelectric-semiconductor interface realizes an energy-efficient memory for computing Read more Perspective  |  Polymer Chemistry Controlling plastic behavior with light By Jake L. Nicholson, Quentin Michaudel Thermoplastic properties are spatially tuned with light intensity during three-dimensional (3D) printing Read more Perspective  |  Aging Rethinking the heritability of aging By Daniela Bakula, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen The genetic contribution to human longevity is greater than previously thought Read more Policy Forum  |  Energy Transition Fossil energy minimum viable scale By Joshua Lappen, Emily Grubert Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out Read more Books et al.  |  Science and Society The essential nature of creative endeavors By Jonathan Wai Engagement with the arts offers clear benefits to human health and well-being Read more Books et al.  |  History of Medicine Making sense of disease By Cynthia Klestinec Religion, ancient medicine, and other frameworks continue to inform how we think about illness Read more Letter A global imperative to remediate Ukraine’s soils By Erkai He, Hao Qiu, et al. Read more Letter  |  Outside the Tower Paying resilience forward By Zohra Zahir Read more Letter Planning policy undermines UK’s nature goals By Joshua Elves-Powell, Jan C. Axmacher, et al. Read more Reviews Review  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY From sequence to function: Bridging single-molecule kinetics and molecular diversity By A. N. Kapanidis, L. Muras, et al. Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Angela Hessler, Stella M. Hurtley, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By L. Bryan Ray, Ekeoma Uzogara, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Research Article  |  PLANT AGING Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs By Dawei Dai, Ken Chen, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CANCER The origin of hepatocellular carcinoma depends on metabolic zonation By Jason Guo, Roger Liang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BIOCATALYSIS Engineered aldehyde dehydrogenases for amide bond formation By Lei Gao, Xiang Qiu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  EVOLUTION The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development By Ioannis Sarropoulos, Mari Sepp, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CELL BIOLOGY DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality By Ines Tomaskovic, Cristian Prieto-Garcia, et al. Read more Research Article  |  HUMAN BEHAVIOR High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild By Alexander Schakowski, Dominik Deffner, et al. Read more Research Article  |  FERROELECTRICS Wafer-scale ultrathin and uniform van der Waals ferroelectric oxide By Qinci Wu, Zhongrui Li, et al. Read more Research Article  |  PLANT SCIENCE Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants By Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, et al. Read more Research Article  |  QUANTUM GASES Probing supersolidity through excitations in a spin-orbit–coupled Bose-Einstein condensate By C. S. Chisholm, S. Hirthe, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BIOINFORMATICS Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason By Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Milot Mirdita, et al. Read more Research Article  |  TSUNAMIGENIC EARTHQUAKES Extreme plate boundary localization promotes shallow earthquake slip at the Japan Trench By J. D. Kirkpatrick, H. M. Savage, et al. Read more Research Article  |  EPITAXIAL FILMS Kinetic acceleration of MoS2 growth by oxy-metal-organic chemical vapor deposition By Lei Liu, Yushu Wang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  TECTONICS High-resolution geodetic velocities reveal role of weak faults in deformation of Tibetan Plateau By T. J. Wright, G. A. Houseman, et al. Read more Research Article  |  HUMAN GENETICS Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed By Ben Shenhar, Glen Pridham, et al. Read more Research Article  |  POLYMERS Lithographic crystallinity regulation in additive fabrication of thermoplastics (CRAFT) By Alex J. Commisso, Eric M. Nagel, et al. Read more Research Article  |  AGING Cellular survivorship bias as a mechanistic driver of muscle stem cell aging By Jengmin Kang, Daniel I. Benjamin, et al. Read more Careers Working Life A wake-up call By Kangkang Tong Read more Association Affairs Association Affairs Public access’s next frontier By Meagan Phelan 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. 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