Science Magazine

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers in Science have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4uAKQDl

Researchers in @scisignal discovered a signaling mechanism that prevents T helper 17 cells from adopting pathogenic states linked to autoimmunity, potentially informing future efforts to treat autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Learn more on #WorldMSDay: scim.ag/4uxwR19

Drawing on a large-scale dataset of more than 12 million scientists, a new Science Policy Article reports that early-career scientists may be more inclined toward transformative breakthroughs, whereas seasoned researchers excel at synthesizing and extending existing knowledge. Learn more: scim.ag/3PFTcur

Researchers have traced the molecular origins of severe pain that often affects patients with #neurofibromatosis—an inherited condition of tumors in the nervous system—and show that an FDA-approved drug can relieve pain in mice. @SciSignal scim.ag/3RJh9l1

Plasma membrane nanoclusters help plants distinguish growth-promoting warmth from damaging heat. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/430Xi3h

"No student should lose valuable time and mental energy over something as fundamental as health care." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4xbfZiG

In a new study, researchers report a sustainable way to convert lithium hardrock into three valuable compounds—battery-grade lithium carbonate, cementitious silica, and smelter-grade alumina—at temperatures less than 100°C. This could establish a lowcarbon alternative to hardrock refining, addressing both the surging demand for lithium and the carbon footprint that undermines the sustainability of the energy transition that lithium is meant to enable. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4u07lAs

A new “electronic sticker” designed to be placed on industrial buildings or trees can detect fires at the ignition stage before they begin to spread uncontrollably. Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/4fMJS2g

Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. The fossil was recovered by an amateur paleontologist in the late 1970s in the Utah desert. The creature is a marine arthropod scientists have named Megachelicerax cousteaui (Greek for “large claw horn”), which likely resembled a bristling, multilegged ocean swimmer with a rounded head shield. Learn more: scim.ag/4e8Cq0d @NewsfromScience

New findings in @SciSignal show that activity of the vagus nerve has a more complex effect on insulin release than was previously thought, hinting that vagus nerve stimulation may have unintended metabolic consequences. scim.ag/3PQtof8

When some lizards lose their tails, they might regenerate new ones. But what happens to the old tail? Whereas a castoff lizard tail quickly decomposes, this isn’t the case for the castoff tube feet of the sea cucumber, Psolus fabricii. In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️, Ph.D. student Sara Miller Jobson describes how these “living” limbs healed after amputation and then survived for more than 3 years in just seawater. 🎧 Listen here: scim.ag/3PJFW86

In a 2025 @SciImmunology Review, researchers discussed how interactions between the nervous and immune systems could impact neurological disorders and allergy-related behaviors like food avoidance. Learn more: scim.ag/44GIuZK #ScienceMagArchives

Recent studies have revealed the synchronization of neuromodulators including norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, dopamine, and histamine during sleep. A new #ScienceReview explores what potential role the synchronization of these oscillations may play in health. scim.ag/4ve9ObR

When it comes to assessing breast cancer risk, most datasets that inform existing models come from white women. Now, an emergent #AI-based predictor trained on people from diverse demographics can evaluate breast cancer risk accurately regardless of patients’ race or ethnicity. scim.ag/4eZ4T9I @ScienceAdvances

Jasmine Clark is set to become the first Black congresswoman with a science Ph.D. scim.ag/4uWH870 @NewsfromScience

Studies of mouse dendritic cells show that mitochondrial complex I dysfunction can impair antigen cross-presentation, but can be restored by rebalancing redox homeostasis. Learn more in @SciImmunology: scim.ag/3Rq5Wpo

A large-scale study of human mobility and wildlife movement across the United States suggests that the day-to-day presence of humans—not just how they alter the landscape—is a major ecological force that shapes how animals move through and use their environments, researchers report in Science. scim.ag/4fHXrzY

"The prospect of reducing or discarding grant review panels has recently been raised in other countries … as a measure to reduce administrative costs. Australia provides a stark example of the consequences of such an action," write Mark A. Dawson and Massimo A. Hilliard in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4dQyOyK

1/ Thrilled to share our new paper, out today in @ScienceMagazine! We built a pan-cancer spatial atlas of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) and developed computation and AI frameworks to study TLS biology at scale. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In a new Science study, researchers use data on food webs to show that African elephants have a keystone role in savanna ecosystems through their effects on dung beetles, an insect group with important ecological functions. 📄: scim.ag/4wUt1kq #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4nVqfqY