From Science Magazine. Lupus, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune diseases all result from a treacherous immune system attacking a person’s own healthy tissue. Last year, a new approach, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, yielded striking improvements in seriously ill patients, opening what may be a new chapter in autoimmune disease treatment. Read the story:…

From Science Magazine. Scientists have developed a high-speed, high-resolution robotic system that can track flying insects in the wild. Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scirobotics.adm7689?af=R 📚: VO-DOAN ET AL., SCIENCE ROBOTICS 2024 🎶: CHRIS BURNS

From Science Magazine. Human eyelashes are good for more than just catching dust and looking pretty: As researchers report in Science Advances, they also actively fling water droplets away from the #eyes, helping to keep vision clear when we swim, sweat, and cry (or shower) 📝: P. JACOBS/SCIENCE 🎞️: K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE 🎥: ZHOU ET AL./SCIENCE…

From Science Magazine. Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adm7689 0:00 Current approaches to capturing insect flight 1:14 How the new tracking system works 2:42 Recording locusts and bees in the field 3:40 Mounting the tracking system onto a drone 4:58 Insects to observe in the future Other research featured in the video: Dragonfly loop-the-loops: https://www.science.org/content/article/absolutely-insane-dragonfly-s-extreme-loop-loops-are-unparalleled-nature Bode Oke…

From Science Magazine. To get out of sticky situations, some lizards detach their tails from their bodies and scurry away. Scientists have long wondered how the bones and muscles in these tails—which help with balance and movement—can sever with ease when needed, but stay firmly in place when not. 🎥: NAVAJIT S. BAVAN; NYU ABU…

From Science Magazine. To understand the glaciers holding back meters of sea level rise, climate scientists swoop in to extract ice from Antarctica’s remote west coast. 🎥: PETER NEFF/VIKRAM GOEL/JULIA ANDREASEN 🗺️: M. HERSHER/SCIENCE 🎶: CHRIS BURNS Read the story: https://www.science.org/content/article/daring-james-bond-mission-drill-antarctic-ices-cores-could-reveal-future-sea-level-rise

From Science Magazine. The discovery of an eastern red cedar log, buried in eastern Canada for millennia and nearly perfectly preserved, illustrates the potential of a new kind of carbon storage scheme in the fight against climate change: wood “vaults.” Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8133

From Science Magazine. Using a high-speed camera and smoke and pollen particles, researchers are modeling how infected spores spread from plants. #ScienceTok #STEM 🎥: WU ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj8092

From Science Magazine. These microscopic algalike fossils took evolutionary biologists by surprise with their extreme age. RESEARCH: Miao et al., Science Advances 2024 PHOTOS: Nicholas J. Butterfield/Wikimedia; The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source

From Science Magazine. The discovery of these slow-flowing waves under tectonic plates reveal a new process that scults the continents. RESEARCH: Gernon et al., Nature 2024 FOOTAGE: BlackBox Guild/Pond5; Turventur/Pond5; BBV/Getty Images; Bloomberg Video/Getty Images

From Science Magazine. A 2022 investigation by Charles Piller helped a neuroscience image sleuth uncover scores of fabrication in #Alzheimers articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease. Read the investigation here: https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease DATA: S. Lensné et al., Nature 440, 352 (2006) GRAPHIC: Chris Bickel PHOTO: Joseph Ross

From Science Magazine. During hibernation, thirteen-lined ground squirrels enter a restful state punctuated by periods of activity. Amid these active stretches, squirrels never consume water—and these neurophysiologists have figured out how these squirrels suppress their thirst. 0:00 Why thirteen-lined squirrels to study hibernation 1:25 Squirrel behavior during hibernation 2:33 How thirst works normally 3:00 Hormonal…

From Science Magazine. Newly discovered organelles in some marine algae, called nitroplasts, can fix nitrogen — a process previously only found in bacteria and archaea. #Organelles ILLUSTRATIONS: Noelle Burgess RESEARCH: Coale et al., Science 2024

From Science Magazine. This RNA-pesticide targeting the Colorado potato beetle could offer a safer, more targeted alternative to chemical pesticides

From Science Magazine. The Science staff named lenacapavir as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year, but there were many other research advances that caught our attention last year. Here’s the impact of those other achievements on science and society. Read more at: science.org/boty2024 0:00 Lenacapavir: 2024’s Breakthrough of the Year 0:45 RNA-based pesticides enter the…

From Science Magazine. An early interest in #reptile feeding behavior led evolutionary biologist Kurt Schwenk to study the tongues of lizards, amphibians and snakes. Like Charles Darwin’s finches, the various forms and functions of #lizard tongues help piece together the story of how diversity of reptiles and amphibians evolved.

From Science Magazine. Researchers recently found evidence that dinosaurs may have had lips that covered their teeth like present-day lizards. Science journalist Rodrigo Pérez Ortega explains how they came to this conclusion. Footage: Michele Dessi/Stocktrek Images/Science Source; Pictorial Press LTD/Alamy Stock Photo; Mark P. Witton

From Science Magazine. HIV infects more than a million people every year worldwide. While decades of research have led to effective treatments and pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) drugs that have dramatically reduced the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic, completely wiping the virus out has remained out of reach. Lenacapavir, a new twice-yearly PrEP injection, may be the…

From Science Magazine. After an oil spill, bacteria like Alcanivorax borkumensis can help the cleanup process, consuming oil and breaking it down. A group of biophysicists have observed how a biofilm forms around the oil and push and pull the oil’s surface into branching tubes. Watch the full-length video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPVeiMYi-M Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf3345 Footage:…

From Science Magazine. Marine snow is the dead, discarded, and sloughed off organic matter that floats down to the sea floor like snowflakes. Originating from living organisms at the surface, then dropping down to the depths, it’s an important part of how the ocean captures carbon from the atmosphere. However, by analyzing the sinking patterns…

From Science Magazine. This flatworm species has the most extreme soldiers yet among parasites. When the nest of Haplorchis puilio is threatened, the soldiers crawl up to the foreign trematodes, attach their mouths, and expand their throats. The resulting vacuum blows a hole in the larger parasites, allowing the soldiers to suck out their guts.…

From Science Magazine. Northern elephant seals are invaluable partners in oceanographic research. By mounting sophisticated sensors on these large, round marine mammals, scientists gather crucial data on hard-to-access marine ecosystems. 00:00 Intro to UC Santa Cruz northern elephant seal research program 01:21 Monitoring seal health and foraging 02:03 Seals as smart sensors 03:14 Instruments to…

From Science Magazine. The amazon River maybe altered forever by #climatechange Photographer Dado Galdieri offers insight on how he approached covering the drought in the amazon for a news feature in the February 16, 2024 issue of Science. Footage: Patric Vanier and Dado Galdieri Music: Ruben Lozano/Pond5

From Science Magazine. After training in thousands of simulated environments, this bipedal robot named Digit could walk stably and adaptably in the real world.

From Science Magazine. Ten seconds before it charges, a marlin "turns on" its stripes. Then, when the attack is done, the marlin dials the contrast back down. Layers of colorful cells in their skin rapidly change shape to create the strong pattern. Read the article: https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-marlin-flash-bright-stripes-deadly-strike Footage: Alicia Burns Script: Sierra Boucher

From Science Magazine. When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return. PHOTOS: Joan J. Soto-Anjel and Pawvel Burkhardt; Maria Pia Miglietta; Ganímendes/Wikimedia Commons STORY: E. Pennisi/Science

From Science Magazine. New studies combining genetics and neuroscience offer clues Centuries of selective breeding of Siamese fighting (betta) fish (Betta splendens) have produced the elaborate colors and patterns that have made them popular pets. But their early domestication was focused on a different signature trait: aggression. In this video, Andrés Bendesky and his team…