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 ...

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 ...

Although the evolution of horses is regarded as a remarkable evolutionary sequence, early perissodactyls like Hyracotherium have been considered as a systematic and paleobiogeographic puzzle for more ...

Of the more than 380,000 plant species worldwide, only 0.1 to 1% are halophytes. While most staple crops are salt-sensitive glycophytes, barley exhibits notable salt tolerance despite its HvHKT1;5 ...

Optical linear and nonlinear spectroscopy is the preferred method for studying the interaction between a solute molecule and its surrounding solvent in liquids because photons are minimally intrusive ...

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 ...

Curbing climate change goes hand-in-hand with decarbonizing energy production. But how can communities continue to meet the global demand for electricity without releasing more CO 2? A cadre of ...

There is now an intensifying international effort to develop robust propulsion systems for hypersonic and supersonic flight. Such a system would allow flight through our atmosphere at very high speeds ...

Tropical cyclones (TCs), and particularly major TCs, pose substantial risk to many regions around the globe. Identifying changes in this risk and determining causal factors for the changes is a ...

Functional diversity in a lipidome In their study, Schuhmacher et al. (5) use the tools of chemical biology to synthesize individual molecular species of DAG including stearyl arachidonyl DAG (SAG) as ...

Infectious zoonotic diseases typically emerge as a result of complex interactions between humans and wild and/or domestic animals. Image credit: Pixabay/sasint. But environmental change also has ...

Climate change exposes people to conditions that are historically unusual but that will become increasingly common over time. What kind of weather do people think of as normal or unusual under these ...