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Brought to you by Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists  VOLUME 392 | ISSUE 6801 | 28 MAY 2026 Maternal work and children’s development: a review. Read this week’s Policy Article.  Editorial Editorial Australia’s erosion of peer review By Mark A. Dawson, Massimo A. Hilliard Read more News In Depth  |  Neuroscience Disembodied human brains used for drug testing By Sara Reardon By restoring some functions to whole brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to better test drugs for neurodegenerative diseases Read more In Depth  |  Geophysics Ship surveys capture the pulsing beat of mantle plumes By Paul Voosen Seismic imaging and drilling cruises bolster a controversial explanation for ancient mass extinctions Read more In Depth  |  Astronomy Has JWST spotted an exploding primordial star? By Daniel Clery Mysterious object could be an exotic supernova, one of the universe’s first galaxies, or something more mundane Read more In Depth  |  Infectious Diseases Ebola outbreak puts nimble treatment trial designs to the test By Kai Kupferschmidt Updated strategies for studying antivirals and antibodies will face logistical challenges on the ground Read more In Depth  |  Trump Administration NIH, NASA place limits on foreign co-authors By Jeffrey Brainard Communication of policies is piecemeal and in some cases contradictory Read more Feature Researching while Chinese By Jeffrey Mervis Multiple postdocs have been arrested and deported in what some see as a replay of Trump’s China Initiative Read more Commentary Perspective  |  Ecology The hidden consequences of elephant extinction By Owen T. Lewis, Eleanor M. Slade The absence of African elephants impairs the ecological role of dung beetles Read more Perspective  |  Neuroscience Getting home in the dark By Simon Spiro, Hal Drakesmith Two mechanisms, independent of daylight, may enable pigeons to navigate using Earth’s magnetic field Read more Perspective  |  Lithium Production Closing the loop on lithium refining By Gang San Lee, Karthish Manthiram An aqueous process for lithium hardrock refining is economically and environmentally attractive Read more Perspective  |  Ecology Silent interference By Alfonso Balmori, Alfonso Balmori-de la Puente Human-generated electromagnetic noise has long-lasting effects on flight orientation in bats Read more Books et al.  |  Climate An Arctic community on the climate front lines By Sarah Boon The harsh realities of global warming are becoming difficult to ignore in Norway’s Longyearbyen Read more Books et al.  |  Chemistry An uncommon introduction to chemistry By Mark Miodownik Infectious enthusiasm for the chemicals of everyday life pervades a nanoscientist’s moving narrative Read more Books et al.  |  Podcast Galileo's Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century Read more Letter Rethinking invertebrate welfare in science By Yuling Liang, Yunbo Song, et al. Read more Letter Volatile food trade policy threatens biodiversity By Cai Li, Zhongci Deng, et al. Read more Letter  |  Past as Prologue Old scientific art inspires generations By Ragupathy Kannan Read more Analysis Policy Article  |  Child Development Maternal work and children’s development: A review By Maria C. Lo Bue, Elizaveta Perova, et al. Causal inference studies suggest minimal impacts of mothers’ work on development from early childhood to adolescence Read more Research Research Highlights In Science Journals By Keith T. Smith, Angela Hessler, et al. Highlights from the Science family of journals Read more Research Highlights In Other Journals By Corinne Simonti, Unnati Sonawala, et al. Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature Read more Research Article  |  PLANT SCIENCE Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection By Marion Clavel, Anita Bianchi, et al. Read more Research Article  |  IMMUNOLOGY Visualizing a lung neutrophil-platelet immunothrombosis cascade during sepsis in mice By Luke Brown, Jared Schlechte, et al. Read more Research Article  |  COVALENT DRUGS A high-throughput selection system for fast-acting covalent protein drugs By Qiongxuan Fan, Jiahao Mei, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CANCER Pan-cancer spatial atlas of tertiary lymphoid structures By Kyung Serk Cho, Yunhe Liu, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Unstructured transcription factor interactions enable emergent specificity By Abrar A. Abidi, Claudia Cattoglio, et al. Read more Research Article  |  NETWORK ECOLOGY Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions By Finote Gijsman, Ciara M. Nutter, et al. Read more Research Article  |  BIOMATERIALS Strain-resilient intrinsically stretchable electrochemical biointerfaces By Yadong Xu, Xiaotian Ma, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SEISMOLOGY Upper-mantle earthquakes beneath East Antarctica By Long M. Ho, José L. Sánchez-Roldán, et al. Read more Research Article  |  SEISMOLOGY Stopping phase reveals abrupt arrest of large strike-slip earthquakes By Jesse Kearse, Yoshihiro Kaneko Read more Research Article  |  NANOMATERIALS Stabilizing in-transition phases of superlattices through shape control of silver nanocrystals By Yasutaka Nagaoka, Timothy C. Moore, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CATALYSIS Dependence of catalytic properties of strongly supported platinum clusters with atom counts By Chyan Kyung Song, Junhyeok Jung, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MARS GEOLOGY Hematite is a mineralogical marker of ancient climate change on Mars By Marek Szczerba, Tanya S. Peretyazhko, et al. Read more Research Article  |  QUANTUM COMPUTING Mechanical resonator–based quantum computing By Yu Yang, Igor Kladarić, et al. Read more Research Article  |  CONSERVATION Disruptive effects of brief radiofrequency noise exposure on migratory bat navigation By Oliver Lindecke, William T. Schneider, et al. Read more Research Article  |  MINERAL EXTRACTION Valorization of lithium hardrock concentrates into battery raw materials and commodity products By Benjamin A. W. Mowbray, Camden Hunt, et al. Read more Research Article  |  ANIMAL NAVIGATION Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions By Clivia Lisowski, Michael Quetting, et al. 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