5. AI-based system offers insights on how polymers can be engineered for use in next-generation bioelectronics
6. Insights from 15 years of collaborative microbiome research with Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon
8. Male flies are not mini-females: Cell-specific, non-uniform growth drives sexual size differences in fruit flies
34. Soil bacteria and minerals can form a natural ''battery'' that breaks down antibiotics in the dark
50. The human cost of healthy eating: Some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labor in food supply chains
63. Questionable lead reporting for drinking water virtually vanished after Flint water crisis, study reveals
68. Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution—and added in later via the First Amendment
75. The world''s snow leopards are very similar genetically—findings suggest that doesn''t bode well for their future
90. From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country
91. Researchers discover enlarged areas of the spinal cord in fish, previously found only in four-limbed vertebrates
102. Hidden highways of the sky mapped: How wind, temperature and species dynamics shape aerial habitat distribution
118. Increase in cell volume and nuclear number of the koji fungus enhances enzyme production capacity
119. Plant-based lubricant outperforms talc and microplastics, offering a nontoxic alternative for seed dispersal
148. Australian teachers are some of the highest users of AI in classrooms around the world, survey reveals
159. Industry scientists reveal reluctance to test chemicals for behavioral effects, despite growing evidence
161. Waste management workers have gone from hero to zero in the public''s eyes since the pandemic, UK research says
162. With new analysis, Apollo samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveal exotic sulfur hidden in moon''s mantle
191. How the Southern Ocean controlled climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide during the lukewarm interglacials
198. World''s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
199. Third dimension of data storage: Physicists demonstrate first hybrid skyrmion tubes for higher-density quantum computing
210. Flexible schedules and other negotiated arrangements may affect teams'' success—for better or worse
217. Intense rain, landslides and potholes everywhere: How climate change is trashing Australia''s roads
219. Six months in ''climate hell'': Relentless heat causes routine fainting episodes in textile factories, investigation shows
241. Domestic work inequality emerges as factor in both economic disparity and marriage trends, reports study
250. Is competition good for trade? Study explores how guilt and disappointment shape decision-making
251. Lessons from a historic quest to heal spider bites are helping to fight neglected tropical diseases today
265. Order from disordered proteins: Physics-based algorithm designs biomolecules with custom properties
272. Repetitive negative thinking mediates relationship between self-esteem and burnout in students, study finds
275. Saturday Citations: Bird news: Vultures as curators and a newly discovered interspecies warning call
288. Researchers demonstrate substrate design principles for scalable superconducting quantum materials
300. Mysterious molecule found on brown dwarf casts further doubt on potential signs of life on Venus