Contributed by Qijing Zhang; received August 5, 2024; accepted October 14, 2024; reviewed by Xian-Zhi Li and Christine M. Szymanski This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural ...

A matriarch feeds with her calf in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. African elephants have experienced pressure from ivory harvest and habitat loss over the past several decades. A comprehensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution (henceforth “CE” and “GCC”) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the “race and intelligence quotient (IQ)” and “human ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hu et al. (1) report the construction of a chimeric coronavirus (rOC43-CoV2-S) in which the spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replaces that of the ...

When Carl Linnaeus invented binomial nomenclature in the 18th century, it provided a universal language for scientists. Giving each species a unique name is essential for effective communication, ...

Cliffs of brown North Mountain Basalt atop latest Triassic-age white and red lacustrine strata of the Fundy Basin, outcropping along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at Five Islands Provincial Park ...

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 ...

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.