A new #SciencePerspective# highlights the strengths and challenges of “self-driving” laboratories, spaces that combine robotics, high-throughput experiments, AI, and automated analysis to transform scientific discovery. Read more:

#Halloween# is usually filled with skeletons—but what about skeletal muscle? This tissue is organized into elongated and aligned myofibers which, according to a 2021 study, can self-repair after localized damage. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective#:

In a new Science study, researchers report that touch and pain, two modalities that activate distinct, intermixed neuronal populations within the same brain region, route blood through different blood vessel networks. 📄: #SciencePerspective#:

An artificial neural network built into a computer memory chip reconstructs the human cortex with high accuracy in real time. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective#:

In a new Science study, researchers show that chromatin exists as a hydrogel that undergoes a volume phase transition between condensed and uncondensed states that correspond to regions of gene activity and silence, respectively. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective#:

Premature birth may do more than interrupt brain development—it may fundamentally alter how the cerebellum matures into early childhood, according to a new study in Science. The findings reveal how the timing of birth shapes brain cell development and neural connections, offering new insight into the lasting neurodevelopmental effects of prematurity. 📄: #SciencePerspective#:

A series of high-energy particle collision experiments tests a decades-old hypothesis about the proton’s baryon number—a conserved quantum property that distinguishes matter from antimatter. The findings in Science offer support for the idea that baryons are likely carried by a Y-shaped gluonic structure known as a baryon junction, and offer insights into the origin of the proton’s identity and how matter is organized throughout the Universe. 📄: #SciencePerspective#: