This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological contexts between 12,000 and 4,000 y old across a vast region encompassing ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory ...

With the advent and widespread use of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

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 ...

In the west, the glaciers feeding Wordie Ice Shelf (1.3-cm SLE) lost 1 to 2 Gt/y in 1979–2003, increasing to 8 Gt/y in 2017, with speed-up detected over the entire drainage. The mass loss for Wilkins ...

This study offers insights into early human–pig interactions during the initial stages of pig domestication in the Lower Yangtze region of South China. By integrating microfossil analysis of dental ...

In amniote limbs, Fibroblast Growth Factor 10 (FGF10) is essential for limb development, but whether this function is broadly conserved in tetrapods and/or involved in adult limb regeneration remains ...

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

Herbivorous insects form tight associations with certain host plants, as in the case of Monarch butterflies and milkweed, pictured here. The insects eat and absorb ...

HIV-1 infection remains incurable because of the long-lasting HIV-1-infected latency cells residing in the host. Current treatment strategies are unable to completely eliminate the virus latent ...

Body fossils set limits on feasible reconstructions of functional capacity and behavior in theropod dinosaurs, but do not document in-life behaviors. In contrast, trace fossils such as footprints ...