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How Marine Carbon Removal Is Governed in the High Seas

The ocean plays a key role in regulating our climate, absorbing 26% of carbon dioxide emissions and 90% of excess heat. With scientific consensus that carbon dioxide removal is needed...

A Song for the Cahaba River

As the Cahaba’s “‘charismatic” namesake lily blooms, an old festival and a new musical tribute celebrate Alabama’s longest free-flowing river.By Lee HedgepethWEST BLOCTON, Ala.—“The lilies have bloomed this season if...

New Mexico Bans Release of Treated Oil and Gas Wastewater

A draft rule would have allowed discharge of 84,000 gallons of treated produced water per day. The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission backtracked to take a more cautious approach.By...

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change

On the opening day of a global science conference, French fishery scientist Clea Abello presented research showing that marine protected areas could protect commercially valuable fisheries.By Teresa TomassoniNICE, France—More than...

Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated

Straddling the border with Mexico along the Rio Grande, the city of Laredo, Texas and its 260,000 residents don’t just have to deal with the region’s ferocious heat. Laredo’s roads,...

A viral necrosome mediates direct RIPK3 activation to promote inflammatory necroptosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceWe revealed a mechanism in which a viral protein promotes the direct RIPK3 activation leading to inflammatory...

The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact

It is virtually impossible for the world to achieve the Paris Agreement’s climate targets without producing and consuming dramatically less meat. But demand for plant-based alternatives, like the imitation burgers...

James Cleverly takes on Kemi Badenoch over decision to ditch net zero targets

Senior Tory to give speech in which he will criticise ‘neo-luddites’ on right for failing to embrace green technologyUK politics live – latest updatesJames Cleverly has taken direct aim at...

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining

Millions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize energy production over the shielding...

Viral and host network analysis of the human cytomegalovirus transcriptome in latency

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceHuman cytomegalovirus infection persists for the host’s lifetime and reactivates sporadically, causing life-threatening complications in those with...

Two endogenous Dictyostelium discoideum chemorepellents use different mechanisms to induce repulsion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceAlthough a considerable amount is known about how eukaryotic cells move toward a signal (chemoattraction), relatively little...

Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceThis study reveals a crucial link between covert spatial attention, object processing, and microsaccades (MSs). While spatial...

Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceWhile the cortex undergoes rapid nonlinear change in the first years of life, it remains unclear how...

There are huge floods and/or droughts all over! And insurance is wildly expensive (if you can even get it) | First Dog on the Moon

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A moment that changed me: I saw my first wild water bear – and snapped out of my despair at the world

I was in anguish over the climate crisis, ecological devastation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this almost indestructible little creature gave me a lesson in resilienceLess than a millimetre...

Fire stations in England ‘falling apart’ amid £1bn funding cut, chiefs say

Exclusive: National Fire Chiefs Council warns of pressures, with callouts up 20% in a decade as firefighter numbers fallFire stations in England are “falling apart”, fire chiefs have warned, with...

Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceSelf-reproduction is one of the most fundamental features of natural life. This study introduces a biochemistry-free method...

Modulation of human dorsal root ganglion neuron firing by the Nav1.8 inhibitor suzetrigine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceNav1.8 sodium channels are highly expressed in primary pain-sensing neurons. Suzetrigine is a potent and highly selective...

Ecological restructuring of North Tethyan marine vertebrate communities triggered by the end-Cretaceous extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceThe fossil record is an archive of ancient biodiversity unveiling the magnitude of extinction events in earth...

A whole-scale volatile-depleted lunar interior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceLunar meteorites provide a broad sampling of the Moon’s surface that can help us better understand volatile...

Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia

The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population

X and Y gene dosage effects are primary contributors to human sexual dimorphism: The case of height

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. SignificanceHuman stature is one of many physical phenotypes that vary between the sexes. On average, adult males...

A universally applicable definition for domestication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. The process of domestication is commonly perceived as a human achievement, and domestic species are typically assumed...

Lynn Landmesser (1943–2024): A pioneer in developmental neurobiology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 22, June 2025. Lynn Landmesser, whose studies transformed our view of how neurons find the proper partners on which to...