Exploration, or sampling for new information, facilitates discovery and socio-emotional learning that sets the stage for adaptation and well-being later in life, yet it is costly in the short run. In ...

Understanding the processes responsible for the striking plant diversity found in tropical forests has been a constant preoccupation of ecology and evolutionary biology. Recent studies have proposed a ...

The causality between the Paleoproterozic Great Oxidation Event (GOE) and a global “snowball Earth” glaciation has remained unresolved due to an inability to determine their relative timing. We ...

Fires burn an area comparable to Europe each year, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols. We compared burned area (BA) based on 20-m resolution images with a BA derived from 500-m data. It represents ...

Amino acids (AAs) constitute a major component in intracellular biomolecules. More than 25% of the total volume of a mammalian cell was reported to be made of AAs. Here, we study how AAs affect the ...

Litter decomposition has profound implications for carbon fluxes and nutrient cycling, making it crucial to identify the key factors controlling decomposition rates for ecosystem management and ...

Brown planthopper (BPH) is the most destructive pest of rice and causes losses of billions of dollars annually. Genetic improvement of BPH resistance in rice remains a major challenge because of the ...

Affordable hand-held ultrasound is transforming health care as a diagnostic tool with the potential to be as ubiquitous as the stethoscope. Here, we present a platform for advancing diagnostic care ...

We use distribution data on 48,661 species to show that marine biodiversity has been responding to climate warming at a global scale. We show that marine species richness levels off or declines in ...

Many of the world’s crops are pollinated by insects, and bees are often assumed to be the most important pollinators. To our knowledge, our study is the first quantitative evaluation of the relative ...

With increasing global demand for freshwater and the concurrent dwindling of traditional water resources, it’s imperative to explore sustainable alternatives for water supply. Atmospheric water ...

*For definitions of three-letter abbreviations, see Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource (http://okeeffe-ws1.la.asu.edu/RCSR/home.htm). See ref. 2. T/V is the ...