Recent studies in mice suggest that how the egg cells hold onto and get rid of their proteins may be key to this survival. Although most proteins are renewed every few days, two studies show that some ...

Edited by Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; received June 19, 2024; accepted September 5, 2024 ...

In research using laptop screens, cats quickly learned to associate sounds and animations. Image credit: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock.

Debris flows are fast-flowing and dangerous slurries of soil and water that often form when intense rainfall soaks hillsides burned by wildfire. As climate change intensifies this hazard, models ...

During sleep, brain is bustling with activity: Different brain structures such as the hippocampus and the cortex interact, and this interplay is thought to be important to stabilize and reprocess ...

Air pollution is a leading cause of mortality, but controls on vehicle emissions have achieved reductions in deaths related to fine particulate matter pollution. Electrification of vehicles and ...

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 ...

Neither of the two competing, long-debated explanations about birth rate declines may be entirely accurate. There could be big implications for policy and programs related to family planning for many ...

Chickens are the world’s most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies, we critically assessed the domestic status of ...

Most humanists and scientists now agree that science is special in its relationship to the real world, more special than are other human activities—religion and politics, for instance. But ...

Edited by Joseph Kieber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; received July 29, 2024; accepted September 9, 2024 ...