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Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to such crises?

The extraction of a phospholipid called phosphatidic acid from the mitochondrial outer membrane is regulated by the curvature of this membrane.

Gene expression patterns in the inner ear put an old question about structures called kinocilia back in motion.

A new fluorescent sensor makes it possible to track the neurotransmitter GABA in freely moving animals.

Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.

Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.

A new biologically-informed training paradigm enables protein language models to predict affinity maturation trajectories for antibodies.

Previously underappreciated folds in the cerebral cortex provide insight into how its structure varies across individuals.

Cocaine use disrupts the encoding of abstract states in the orbitofrontal cortex.

The biosynthesis of an important biopolymer called hyaluronan requires an enzyme that discriminates between two different substrates.