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Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery.
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Jumping spiders actually fall asleep, even entering a REM-like state in which they may be dreaming.
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#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.
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If you think one spider is scary, how about more than 1000? 🕷️
On #Halloween#, learn more about this 2022 @ScienceAdvances research that revealed essential amino acid motifs in spider silk by analyzing genotypes of 1098 spider species.
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By studying sea slugs in the lab, researchers have determined how structural changes in molecules called transfer RNAs accompany behavioral habituation, an elemental form of learning. @SciSignal
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Poetry and other art forms can play a vital role in conservation by giving emotional and cultural meaning to scientific evidence, argue Phillip Levin and David Hassler in a new #ScienceBooks# essay.
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About 130 million years ago the first flowering plants emerged, eventually bearing a dazzling array of fruits that would grow alongside the dinosaurs. But researchers have long questioned whether dinosaurs ever made these earliest fruits a main course.
Now, a toothless, turkey-size oddity with a parrotlike beak may be the first known dinosaur frugivore.
Researchers report a newly discovered dinosaur that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops named Infernogallus jamesi—meaning “hell chicken”—that was fully adapted to a fruit-based diet.
The anatomy bears a striking resemblance to modern parrots, the authors say. Learn more: @NewsfromScience
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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.
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Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have developed a self-powered, finger-worn interface that converts fingertip movement directly into wireless communication signals.
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In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️#, journalist Mark Peplow looks at recent technological improvements in destroying forever chemicals—and how feasible it is to deploy them.
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New work in @SciSignal shows how a mutant form of a protein named #STAT3# causes a genetically dominant immunodeficiency, providing crucial insights into a signaling pathway critical for immune responses.
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Science is publishing an Erratum for the May 2025 Research Article “Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery.”
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In a new #SciencePolicyArticle#, researchers look at Jamaica’s experience with 2025’s Hurricane Melissa as a case study that reveals how extreme weather and disaster spending can trap climate-vulnerable countries in a cycle of recovery borrowing and underinvestment in future climate resilience.
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A new study in @SciImmunology demonstrates how mechanical sensing in gut macrophages can lead to colitis-associated visceral pain in mice.
A newly resurfaced photo taken by Rosalind Franklin—photo 49—shows she was aware of the helical structure of DNA and explains why her published image—photo 51—does not have indications of her understanding of its shape.
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The NOSTER & Science Magazine Microbiome Prize rewards innovative research by early-career investigators on the functional roles of the microbiota in human or veterinary health and disease.
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New article in @ScienceMagazine, with Janet Freilich, Kasper Dinkla & Ingmar Meijer, quantifying the gap between claims & disclosure in drug patents & suggesting broad claims are used as strategic "moats"
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🎉 Congratulations to Gioele La Manno, winner of the 2026 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his innovative experiments that have uncovered intricate layers of organization in the brain’s lipids—and have deciphered how these fatty molecules shape the diversity of brain cells.
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Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.
The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.
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Two proteins that permeabilize mitochondria promote cell death through distinct mechanisms.
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