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 ...

Healthy brain function requires a delicate balance of neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I). In animals, this balance—the E/I ratio—is known to decrease with the maturation of inhibitory circuitry ...

Collective cognition is often mentioned as one of the advantages of group living. But which factors actually facilitate group smarts? To answer this, we compared how individuals and groups of either ...

Ecological divergence provides compelling evidence for origin of species through natural selection that has captivated evolutionists since Darwin. In this study, we present multiple-omics analyses and ...

In hair cells, the gating of the mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channels requires force supplied by the tensioning of tip links during sound-induced displacement of the hair-cell stereociliary ...

We apply an innovative modeling approach to project that global boreal forests will undergo a fundamental transition toward an open forest state of 30 to 50% tree cover in the coming decades. We ...

Active fluids, such as bacterial suspensions and flowing tissues, often exhibit orientational order disrupted by topological defects. Much is understood about how internal driving powers ...

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 ...

The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising risks of ...

Reports of soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in China’s croplands vary substantially due to diverse data sources and the lack of a standardized methodology. Additionally, SOC dynamics in deeper soil ...

Integrating adjuvants into circular RNAs (circRNAs) demonstrates the prospect of developing circRNA vaccines and adjuvants, enabling circRNA encoding antigens and adjuvants can codeliver both ...

Peto’s paradox—the puzzling disconnect between body size and cancer prevalence across species—has long stood as one of comparative biology’s most captivating and unresolved enigmas. Through the ...