As these chemicals swirl down drains, or leach out of trash at the dump, they contaminate soil, groundwater, and, ultimately, ...

Reprogramming glial cells into neurons holds great promise for regenerative therapies in the central nervous system, but the molecular barriers limiting this process remain largely unknown. This study ...

We examine i) whether the public views AI as labor-replacing rather than labor-creating, and ii) how these perceptions affect two core democratic outcomes: democratic legitimacy (e.g., satisfaction ...

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Edited by Huijie Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics, Beijing, China; received November 18, 2024; accepted May 31, 2025, by Editorial Board Member Chris Jarzynski ...

In the spring of 2022, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Creek fire burned over 300,000 acres in New Mexico (1), including terrain near the Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in Las Vegas, New Mexico ...

Contributed by John B. Goodenough, September 30, 2016 (sent for review August 24, 2016; reviewed by Ken Poeppelmeier and Jean-Marie Tarascon) ...

Traditional Chinese medicine has made contributions to the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its favorable efficacy, such as Huashi Baidu decoction (Q-14) (1, 2). Recently, ...

All known 4-manifolds invariants cannot distinguish a possible counterexample to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare Conjecture from the standard 4-sphere. The L invariant, defined in this paper, can do ...

As the last great ice sheets were retreating and the Pleistocene Epoch was ending, humanity began an epic journey. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors had survived by hunting animals and ...

In March 1835, a young Charles Darwin was high up in the Andes and struggling to cook supper. “Our potatoes after remaining for some considerable time in the boiling water were nearly as hard as ever, ...

Open in Viewer RoBMA PSMA model-averaged posterior mean effect size estimates with 95% credible intervals and Bayes factors for the absence of the effect for the combined sample or split by either the ...