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

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 ...

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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 ...

The regressions and curve fits in Fig. 1 b and c are based only on the mean value of each point. The computation does not include all the data points at each location (represented by the SD) for ...

Professor Patty Jo Watson died August 1, 2024, at age 92 in Arlington, Massachusetts, after some years of failing health. She was a distinguished archaeological scholar, working in both North America ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...