Contributed by M. Brian Maple, July 3, 2018 (sent for review April 23, 2018; reviewed by Filip Ronning and Brian C. Sales) ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment to test the impacts of human activity on urban-dwelling wildlife. Urban dark-eyed juncos differ in bill shape and size in Los Angeles in comparison ...

How human brain function is established through protracted trajectories of development is not yet fully understood. Maturation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) circuits drives critical periods of ...

Partial skull of Hyracotherium leporinum (holotype, NHMUK PV M 16336). Image credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London. After mating, a distinct cluster of neurons in the male mouse ...

Coral reef fish may be more important than we thought ...

J. Allen, C. Martel, D. G. Rand, “Birds of a feather don’t fact-check each other: Partisanship and the evaluation of news in Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced fact-checking program” in Proceedings of ...

The ocean and land absorb anthropogenic C O 2 from industrial fossil-fuel emissions and land-use changes, helping to buffer climate change. Here, we compare decadal variability of ocean C O 2 uptake ...

Flowering plants have evolved various types of physical defense mechanisms, such as thorns, prickles, and spines, to protect against herbivory. The common feature of these sharp structures is the ...

Naturally occurring Cr (VI) has recently been reported in ground and surface waters. Rock strata rich in Cr (III)-bearing minerals, in particular chromite, are universally found in these areas that o ...

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 ...

For a number of years, I have argued that we are now, thanks to the effects of human-caused warming, experiencing a new class of monster storms—”category 6” hurricanes. That is to say, we are ...

Phonons are believed not to be able to generate a thermal Hall signal due to their lack of charge or spin. However, since the first discovery of a phonon thermal Hall effect in the paramagnetic ...