An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

Efforts to anticipate and adapt to future climate can benefit from historical experiences. We examine agroclimatic conditions over the past 50 y fo ...

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Using data from rural monitoring sites across the contiguous United States, we evaluated fine particulate matter (PM2.5) trends for 1988–2016. We c ...

We report experimental characterization of shear transformation zones (STZs) for plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) based on a newly developed cooperative shearing model [Johnson WL, Samwer ...

A large number of complex systems find a natural abstraction in the form of weighted networks whose nodes represent the elements of the system and ...

The valence band maxima of most group VI transition metal dichalcogenide thin films remain at the Γ point all of the way from bulk to bilayer. In this paper, we develop a continuum theory of the moiré ...

The spread of rumors has been described as “infection of the mind” (7) or “thought contagion” (8), and their spread is analogous to the spread of an infectious disease: information is passed on from ...

Hydrogen-rich compounds hold promise as high-temperature superconductors under high pressures. Recent theoretical hydride structures on achieving h ...

Fire is a pivotal aspect of human involvement in the carbon cycle. However, the precise timing of the large-scale human fire use remains uncertain.

The limited fossil record of the giant panda Ailuropoda [Family Ursidae (1)] has, until recently, been primarily composed of teeth, mandibles, and a few skulls from the largest representative of the ...

We describe the use of singular value decomposition in transforming genome-wide expression data from genes × arrays space to reduced diagonalized “eigengenes” × “eigenarrays” space, where the ...