Agriculture is one of the main drivers of global land use change (LUC) as well as terrestrial carbon and biodiversity losses. While the environmental footprint from agricultural production could be ...

Studying E/I ratio development in vivo in humans is challenging due to limitations in noninvasive neuroimaging techniques. MR spectroscopy studies suggest changes in the balance of excitatory and ...

The piano mover’s puzzle. (A) Snapshots from two ant solvers: a single ant (Left) and a large group of ants (Right) during a solving attempt, with zoom-ins on carrier ants.The load’s configuration ...

The adaptation of ancestral populations to contrasted environments has been assumed to trigger “origin of the species” as a major mechanism since Darwin ().Under divergent selection, two populations ...

MYO7A is an unconventional myosin expressed in both the inner hair cells (IHCs) and outer hair cells (OHCs) of the mammalian cochlea (refs. 12–14, gEAR: https://umgear.org).However, recent evidence ...

A simple measure of forest structure which allows a quantification of forest change over large spatial scales is tree cover. Tree cover often relates to forest biomass carbon and the risk of forest ...

Topological defects also naturally emerge in active fluids (16–18), i.e., fluids composed of self-driven units such as bacteria, motor protein-biofilament constructs, active colloids, and living cells ...

Cell membrane-coated nanoparticles are emerging as a new type of promising nanomaterials for immune evasion and targeted delivery. An underlying premise is that the unique biological functions of ...

As we progress deeper into the Anthropocene with ever-expanding human pressures on the Earth system, there are increasing calls for a paradigm shift in our understanding of and approach to governing ...

Soils are the largest carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems, storing three times more carbon than atmosphere and two times more carbon than vegetation (1, 2).Hundreds of manipulation experiments have ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines are a key technology in combating existing and emerging infectious diseases (1, 2).Major advances have been made over the past 3 y in the application of mRNA vaccines to ...

Briefly, Brownian motion is commonly used to describe the random evolution of traits through time. Specifically, changes in the value of a trait are drawn from a normal distribution with mean 0 and ...