Culture is a powerful force that touches all aspects of human life, from health and reproduction to food and clothing technology, in every known human population around the world. Human cultural ...

Edited by Eva Andrei, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; received March 14, 2024; accepted August 13, 2024 Part of the challenge in pinpointing the dominant origin of RTN is ...

Edited by Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; received August 9, 2024; accepted October 28, 2024 ...

I would like to express several concerns about a paper recently published in PNAS (1). My focus is on the matter of “impression management,” the extent to which the narrative of any paper is ...

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Artist’s reconstruction: During the Early Cretaceous Period in northeastern China, a parent Psittacosaurus cares for nestlings in a burrow and senses the presence of a predatory mammal, Repenomamus.

The US Department of Energy (DoE) recently announced $118 million ($118M) worth of funding for fundamental energy research through its 2024 Energy Frontier Research Centers. It’s the latest round of a ...

Research to create a more sustainable, equitable world. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a universal call-to-action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for ...

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As loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation become major concerns worldwide, scientists increasingly depend on DNA-based characterization of animal communities for monitoring and impact ...

Third, Majer et al. point to current insights that can be applied to high conflict settings (1). We agree that such insights should be leveraged for sustainability transformations. However, we caution ...

Isoprene, an aerosol and ozone precursor, is mainly emitted by plants, particularly trees. Hui Wang et al. measured isoprene emissions from sedges, a class of herbaceous plants found in both natural ...