Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current configuration of human society—atomized, slow to coordinate, prone to ...

Edited by Michael L. Klein, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, and approved February 17, 2012 (received for review November 5, 2011) ...

Contributed by John B. Goodenough, September 30, 2016 (sent for review August 24, 2016; reviewed by Ken Poeppelmeier and Jean-Marie Tarascon) ...

Contact inhibition of cell growth is essential for embryonic development and maintenance of tissue architecture in adult organisms, and the growth of tumors is characterized by a loss of contact ...

Principal components analysis and, more generally, the Singular Value Decomposition are fundamental data analysis tools that express a data matrix in terms of a sequence of orthogonal or uncorrelated ...

Linking microscopic and macroscopic behavior is at the heart of many natural and social sciences. This apparent similarity conceals essential differences across disciplines: Although physical ...

Edited by Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, University of California, Irvine, CA, and approved December 15, 2009 (received for review October 2, 2009) The fact that nucleation takes place at sizes below the ...

Cnidaria, the sister group of Bilateria, include corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones. They possess neurons, which are organized in a diffuse nerve net. It is generally agreed that cnidarian and ...

Assembling the mitochondrial ATP synthaseThe assembly of the mitochondrial ATP synthase is a complicated process that involves the coordinated association of mitochondrially and nuclear encoded ...

Tetrapods evolved from sarcopterygian fishes in the Devonian and were the first vertebrates to colonize land. The locomotor component of this transition can be divided into four major events: ...

We present a simple nitrogen (N) isotope model to investigate the partitioning of gaseous (fgas) vs. leaching (fleaching) pathways of N removal from the nonagricultural (i.e., unmanaged) terrestrial ...

We develop a theoretical approach to quantify the effect of long-term trends on the expected number of extremes in generic time series, using analytical solutions and Monte Carlo simulations. We apply ...