Contents
Vol 358, Issue 6360
Special Issue
Remote sensing
Introduction to special issue
Research Articles
Contents
This Week in Science
Editorial
Editors' Choice
Multimedia
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
In Brief
In Depth
- Drug-resistant malaria advances in Mekong
Dangerous strain has spread to Vietnam, but experts sharply dispute its risk to the world.
- Cold, clear view of molecules nets chemistry prize
Cryo-EM nears sharpness of x-ray crystallography.
- How Africans evolved a palette of skin tones
Gene variants show that the evolution of skin color was anything but black and white.
- Evolution accelerated when life set foot on land
Opportunities of terrestrial living sped innovation.
- ‘Science wars’ veteran has a new mission
Bruno Latour was a thorn in scientists' sides. Now, he wants to rebuild trust in their work.
- Most distant Milky Way outpost mapped
Star-forming region 66,000 light-years away helps trace galaxy's veiled spiral arm.
- Publishers take academic networking site to court
Plaintiffs accuse site of massive copyright violation.
Feature
- A cold case
Years ago, two women allege, their team leader sexually harassed them in Antarctica. Now they are taking action.
Working Life
Letters
Books et al.
- Tracking today
The art of observing animal movement has come a long way, thanks to advances in data science and technology
- A future on fire
Climate change and conservative forest management may mean bigger and more frequent wildfires
Policy Forum
- Reproductive health in culture wars crossfire
The “Gag Rule” is endangering health in Africa and globally
Perspectives
- Addressing supply issues for natural products in the clinic
An efficient chemical synthesis of scarce bryostatin 1 will enable wider clinical trials
- A direct look at halogen bonds
High-resolution images of halogen-containing molecules reveal unusual bonding patterns
- Helping robots blend into the background
The skin of soft inflatable robots is camouflaged by changing surface texture and color
- Quantum emitters in two dimensions
Two-dimensional materials offer potential for developing integrated quantum technologies
- Life, death, and antibodies
The search for high-affinity antibodies by B cells leaves a trail of molecular destruction
- Atlas…t, patterns from every cell
Microfluidics and DNA sequencing meet to create the first atlas of an embryo at single-cell resolution
- Sir Patrick Bateson (1938–2017)
Influential researcher of the biology of animal behavior
Association Affairs
Research Articles
- The microanatomic segregation of selection by apoptosis in the germinal center
The selection of germinal center B cells by apoptosis is regulated by microanatomically distinct mechanisms.
- The Drosophila embryo at single-cell transcriptome resolution
Single-cell sequencing and an interactive database enable the generation of a 3D virtual fly embryo and a gene expression blueprint.
Reports
- Quantum acoustics with superconducting qubits
Single-phonon states can be electrically stored and retrieved in a piezoelectric resonator.
- Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry of single phonons from an optomechanical resonator
Single-phonon states can be optically stored and retrieved in a mechanical resonator.
- Imaging the halogen bond in self-assembled halogenbenzenes on silver
Noncontact scanning tunneling microscopy reveals details on halogen bonding between molecules on a surface.
- Stretchable surfaces with programmable 3D texture morphing for synthetic camouflaging skins
Pneumatically altering 2D surfaces into complex hierarchical 3D shapes camouflages them in their background environments.
- Anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation by metal-oxo–mediated enzyme catalysis
Directed evolution modifies cytochrome P450 to catalyze an unnatural reaction that has bedeviled chemical catalysis.
- Scalable synthesis of bryostatin 1 and analogs, adjuvant leads against latent HIV
Chemical synthesis yields gram quantities of a scarce compound under study for treating HIV, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease.
- Aqueous Au-Pd colloids catalyze selective CH4 oxidation to CH3OH with O2 under mild conditions
Methyl radicals generated catalytically from methane with aqueous hydrogen peroxide are converted to methanol with oxygen.
- Mapping spiral structure on the far side of the Milky Way
A direct parallax distance on the far side of the Milky Way allows tracing of one of the spiral arms.
- Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss
Tropical forests release more CO2 to the atmosphere than they remove from it.
- Use of CRISPR-modified human stem cell organoids to study the origin of mutational signatures in cancer
CRISPR-mediated genome editing of organoids can reveal the origin of mutational signatures in human cancer.
- Innovative scattering analysis shows that hydrophobic disordered proteins are expanded in water
Intrinsically disordered proteins are often expanded in water, which affects their function, and dynamics and may protect them from aggregation.
Technical Comments
From the AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services
About The Cover

COVER This artist's rendition of Earth uses data obtained from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) to show a time-averaged, false-color view of the concentration of atmospheric CO2 over Asia, parts of Africa, and Europe. In this issue (see page 186), the initial results from the OCO-2 mission are reported, including El Niño's effects on CO2 fluxes, detection of CO2 emissions from point sources, and measurement of terrestrial photosynthesis. For more on the process behind the cover image, see http://scim.ag/2xmJxiU
Data visualization: C. Bickel/Science; NASA Scientific Visualization Studio