A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.

Hints of a massive new particle at the Large Hadron Collider have physicists abuzz -and eager to follow up.

U.S. academies find researchers getting better at attributing heat waves, cold snaps, and other events to climate trends.

Powerful genetic studies pin down multiple trysts on different continents.

Billion-euro accelerator won't make up the shortfall, experts say.

Assays spot cell death from diabetes, cancer, and more.

Researchers are learning that Arctic organisms aren't dormant during the long polar night.

A new handbook offers approachable advice for aspiring science writers of all stripes

Could committing half of Earth's surface to conservation stave off the next mass extinction?

Transform Guantánamo into a peace park and ecological research center

Synchrotron light sources can be used to probe superconductivity at extreme pressures [Also see Report by Troyan et al.]

A perovskite containing highly electropositive cations conducts hydride anions [Also see Report by Kobayashi et al.]

The increasing spread of colistin resistance is resulting in untreatable infections

An intestinal cell stimulates the immune response to parasitic infections [Also see Report by Howitt et al.]

Biosynthesis of the antibiotic nosiheptide proceeds via unforeseen radical intermediates [Also see Report by Sicoli et al.]

Two hydrogen bonds in a six-molecule water cluster break simultaneously in a concerted set of movements [Also see Report by Richardson et al.]

A glycosylation enzyme in specific brain neurons is a nutrient sensor that controls body weight [Also see Research Article by Lagerlöf et al.]

Noncovalent interactions provide tunable ways to control the binding and release of a range of molecules and therapeutics.

Pluto and Charon display a complex geology, including evidence for tectonics and cryovolcanoes.

An enzyme in the mouse brain hypothalamic nucleus prevents overeating. [Also see Perspective by Schwartz]

In gestating mice, the mother's community of microbes shapes the immune system of the offspring.

Pluto's atmosphere is cold, rarefied, and made mostly of nitrogen and methane, with layers of haze.

Pluto modifies its space environment, interacting with the solar wind plasma and energetic particles.

Pluto and Charon have surfaces dominated by volatile ices, with large variations in color and albedo.

Pluto's rapidly rotating small moons have bright icy surfaces with impact craters.

A tin foil sensor inside a pressurized superconducting sample of hydrogen sulfide is used to demonstrate the expulsion of magnetic field. [Also see Perspective by Struzhkin]

Copper oxide nanocrystals can be converted in copper sulfide and cadmium sulfide nanocages via exchange reactions.

Rotational spectroscopy and accompanying theory uncover gearlike joint motion of a pair of water molecules in a cluster. [Also see Perspective by Clary]

A rare earth lithium oxyhydride shows transport of hydride anions. [Also see Perspective by Yamaguchi]

Methane release rates from a single leak were nearly double that of the entire rest of the Los Angeles region.

An unexpected enzymatic carboxyl group migration leads to an antibiotic precursor. [Also see Perspective by Bridwell-Rabb and Drennan]

Loss of C9orf72 disrupts microglial function and may contribute to neurodegeneration in C9orf72 expansion patients.

Gut epithelial tuft cells are key players in mucosal immune responses against parasites. [Also see Perspective by Harris]

Prostaglandin E₂ prevents systemic inflammation by maintaining gut barrier integrity.

Monoclonal antibodies that bind Ebola virus glycoprotein show therapeutic efficacy in macaques.

Structural analysis reveals how two monoclonal antibodies block access of Ebola virus into cells.

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