Dogs are humanity's best friend—but how long has it been that way? 🐕 A 2020 Science study investigated ancient dog genomes, revealing a complicated genetic legacy that reflects a long, shared history with humans. Learn more on #InternationalDogDay#:

Thunderstorms can generate acoustic waves that couple into the ground to produce seismic signals. New research in @ScienceAdvances shows these “thunderquakes,” recorded by fiber optic cable, can be used to image Earth’s subsurface.

A new computational method called MSI-VISUAL better reveals subtle tissue differences in mouse brain and kidney examples, potentially expanding mass spectrometry imaging use for understanding the processes inside tissues and individual cells. Learn more:

"As I sat at my desk wrestling with the grant proposal I was coordinating, I could feel my eyes glaze over. I’d spent all afternoon figuring out how to keep dozens of consortium partners happy, and I was now deep in the thankless task of cutting budgets and moving numbers from one column to another. But just then an unlikely lab member offered a reprieve: my dog, Zazil." #InternationalDogDay#

An enzyme named BRAF acts as a molecular amplifier of neuropathic pain after nerve injury by migrating to synapses in spinal neurons, shows new preclinical work that also identifies BRAF inhibitors as promising therapies. Learn more @SciSignal:

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#:

A 2025 #ScienceReview# looked at a different approach to drug discovery that may enable drugging of unconventional targets through stabilization of macromolecular complexes with molecules known as “LOCKTACs.” Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives#

A basic accounting rule in physics says whenever a particle collision creates a baryon—something like a proton or neutron that consists of three particles called quarks—it must simultaneously create a similar antibaryon. Such “baryon number conservation” implies the amount of nuclear matter in the universe is fixed. However, physicists have never determined where within a baryon the conserved number resides. For decades, the textbook answer has been simple. Each quark carries a baryon number of 1/3 and each antiquark carries a baryon number of –1/3. Because a collision can only ever make quark-antiquark pairs, the total baryon number cannot change. However, a recently published study suggests the baryon number is not carried by the quarks, but instead resides in an agglomeration of particles called gluons that bind the quarks together and is called a baryon junction. Learn more: @NewsfromScience

Controlled via a Bluetooth finger patch, BeetleBot, a beetle-inspired soft robot, can perform various locomotive tasks and provide visual and sensory feedback for potential applications from biomedical assistance to environment exploration. Learn more in @ScienceAdvances:

The global push for solar energy could come with a hidden biodiversity cost, a study of more than 2300 Chinese counties reports. According to the findings in Science, stronger policies promoting solar development were associated with a decline in bird diversity, largely because ecologically diverse croplands and grasslands were converted to developed land. Learn more:

Why is tracing cyclosporiasis so tough? Learn more in the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️#, which features interns Mona Patterson and Laura Martín Agudelo diving into their reporting from the summer. 🎧 Listen here:

Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved suzetrigine, the first in a new class of drugs that promised pain relief approaching that of opioid pills without those concerns. Many expected to see even more powerful drugs emerge from this class of agents, known as Nav1.8 inhibitors, which block sodium channels on pain-sensing neurons to quell their activity. But efforts to improve on suzetrigine—which has been shown to offer consistent but moderate effects on acute pain—have not produced stronger relief. Recent research has aimed to explain what seems to be a ceiling to the drugs' benefits, and to get a better handle on their real-world limits. Learn more: @NewsfromScience

"The 'artificial state'—government by machines—is the latest tool used by aspiring autocrats, argues historian Jill Lepore in The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. The book is a journey through the narratives that built this framework—and a reminder that just as it was assembled, it can be dismantled." Read the #ScienceBooks# Review:

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:

Neuroimmune crosstalk in the lungs induces eosinophil recruitment and type 2 inflammation via norepinephrine, which could drive sex differences in allergic asthma in mice. Learn more in @SciImmunology:

Who checks what AI can do? In a new #ScienceEditorial#, Thorsten Holz argues that verification should not be considered "a brake on frontier AI research; it is the condition under which its results become scientific evidence."