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Brought to you by NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award VOLUME 391 | ISSUE 6792 | 26 MAR 2026 The plants that drought can’t kill: read this week’s News Feature. Editorial Editorial Scientists can save nuclear arms control By Rose Gottemoeller Read more News In Depth  |  Archaeology Iran war rains collateral damage on heritage sites By Kristin Romey Internet blackouts and academic isolation cloud efforts to track cultural toll of U.S.-Israeli strikes Read more In Depth  |  Paleoanthropology Neanderthals lived on a knife’s edge for 350,000 years By Andrew Curry A pair of studies illuminates these humans’ long, hardscrabble existence Read more In Depth  |  Endocrinology ‘Morning sickness hormone’ may help reduce alcohol intake By Catherine Offord GDF15, thought to contribute to nausea during pregnancy, also acts as a brake on drinking, researchers argue Read more In Depth  |  Planetary Science First science from private Moon lander challenges picture of lunar volcanism By Paul Voosen Blue Ghost data suggest NASA’s growing commercial Moon program can deliver results Read more In Depth  |  Artificial Intelligence AI ‘agents’ go rogue in realistic simulations By Jeffrey Brainard Algorithms that autonomously control other software and files can become “agents of chaos,” violating privacy, security Read more In Depth  |  Archaeology World’s oldest dog identified at ancient hunter-gatherer site By David Grimm 15,800-year-old puppy pushes confirmed origin of our canine companions back nearly 5000 years Read more In Depth  |  Physics The Mpemba effect goes quantum By Zack Savitsky Quirk of freezing water found on atomic scales, hinting at technological applications Read more In Depth  |  Publishing Pioneering preprint server goes solo By Jeffrey Brainard ArXiv splits from Cornell, aiming to raise funds to cope with rapid growth Read more Feature Playing dead By Martin Enserink Resurrection plants can wither to nothing in a drought, then spring back to life. Jill Farrant thinks the feat holds lessons for crops Read more Commentary Expert Voices Is astronomy a luxury? By Andy Lawrence Read more Perspective  |  Social Sciences In defense of social friction By Anat Perry Sycophantic AI distorts social judgments and behaviors Read more Perspective  |  Physics Catching water’s hidden transition By Francesco Paesani Rapid measurements capture structural transition in a short-lived liquid state of supercooled water Read more Perspective  |  Paleontology The dawn of modern apes By David M. Alba, Júlia Arias-Martorell An Egyptian fossil places the origin of modern apes in northeastern Afro-Arabia Read more Perspective  |  Environmental Science Cascading impacts of natural disasters in a connected world By Laurie S. Huning, Manuela I. Brunner Multifaceted effects of extreme climate-related events are essential for risk models and management Read more Perspective  |  Immunology Designed to remember By Guillaume Blot, Przemyslaw Sapieha Specific DNA sequence features encode the persistence of epigenetic memory of inflammation Read more Policy Forum  |  Climate Science A global methane observation system to track climate feedbacks for verifiable climate impact By Jennifer D. Watts, Elsa Ordway, et al. Methane measurements, particularly of natural sources, need to be expanded considerably Read more Books et al.  |  Astronomy An out of this world buddy movie By Jackie Faherty An astronaut and an alien engineer team up against an existential threat in a new film Read more Books et al.  |  Medicine When disease resists diagnosis By Lucy Tu Structural constraints stymie patients and physicians when symptoms cannot be easily explained Read more Letter Coal-to-gas transition strains equity in China By Bing Zhang, Jingyan Han, et al. Read more Letter Beyond the US-China biotech scoreboard By Y. Tony Yang Read more Letter  |  Past as Prologue A village injury, a lifelong mission By Renqi Luo Read more Reviews Review  |  PROTEOSTASIS Systems-level organization of extracellular proteostasis By Cláudio M. Gomes, Michele Vendruscolo Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Di Jiang, Sacha Vignieri, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Sacha Vignieri, Mattia Maroso, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Research Article  |  MAMMALIAN DEVELOPMENT Family single-cell atlases reveal pig pregnancy and fetal growth restriction critical cell types By Liping Cai, Qing Zhang, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Chromatin buffers torsional stress during transcription By Jin Qian, Lucyna Lubkowska, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ADAPTATION Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis By Xing Wu, Tatiana Bellagio, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Cryo–electron microscopy structure of the budding yeast telomerase holoenzyme By Hongmiao Hu, Hannah Neumann, et al. Read more Research Article  |  INFLAMMATION Distinctive DNA sequence features define epigenetic longevity of inflammatory memory By Christopher J. Cowley, Sairaj M. Sajjath, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells By Yu-Kai Chao, Michelle Wu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence By Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, et al. Read more Research Article  |  NEUROSCIENCE Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level By Yang Chen, Marinus Kloos, et al. Read more Research Article  |  COMPARATIVE BEHAVIOR Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity By Alaa Maalouf, Joseph DelPreto, et al. Read more Research Article  |  NEUROSCIENCE Structure and organization of AMPA receptor-TARP complexes in the mammalian cerebellum By Alexander M. Scrutton, Nayanika Sengupta, et al. Read more Research Article  |  TSUNAMIS SWOT detects dispersive tsunami tied to a near-trench source in the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake By Ignacio Sepúlveda, Bjarke Nilsson, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOSQUITO GENETICS Population genomics of Anopheles darlingi, the principal South American malaria vector mosquito By Jacob A. Tennessen, Raphael Brosula, et al. Read more Research Article  |  QUANTUM OPTICS High-dimensional topological photonic entanglement By M. Javad Zakeri, Armando Perez-Leija, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ANTHROPOLOGY An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea By Shorouq F. Al-Ashqar, Erik R. Seiffert, et al. Read more Research Article  |  WATER Experimental evidence of a liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water By Seonju You, Marjorie Ladd-Parada, et al. 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