Many critical policy decisions rely on data about the geographic distribution of wealth and poverty, yet only half of all countries have access to adequate data on poverty. This paper creates a ...

Peto’s paradox—the puzzling disconnect between body size and cancer prevalence across species—has long stood as one of comparative biology’s most captivating and unresolved enigmas. Through the ...

We used a yeast platform to identify all unaccounted enzymatic steps of the tropane alkaloid biosynthetic pathway in Erythroxylaceae. We provide multiple lines of evidence that biosynthesis of tropane ...

Reports of soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in China’s croplands vary substantially due to diverse data sources and the lack of a standardized methodology. Additionally, SOC dynamics in deeper soil ...

Using data from 100 healthy young participants studied during a 9-d inpatient protocol, we constructed analytic action spectra for melatonin suppression and circadian phase resetting in response to ...

Collective cognition is often mentioned as one of the advantages of group living. But which factors actually facilitate group smarts? To answer this, we compared how individuals and groups of either ...

Ecological divergence provides compelling evidence for origin of species through natural selection that has captivated evolutionists since Darwin. In this study, we present multiple-omics analyses and ...

Jasmonic acid (JA) plays an important role in plant defense against insects, pathogenic fungi and viruses mediated by cell-surface pattern recognition receptors, and intracellular nucleotide-binding ...

Algorithms incorporate biases in the human decisions that comprise their training data, which can amplify and codify discrimination. We examine whether algorithmic biases can be used to reveal and ...

How prehistoric farming became established in Northern Europe, a region that supported dense populations of hunter-gatherer-fishers, has concerned archaeologists for over a century. Through analysis ...

To perform biological functions, living systems must break detailed balance by consuming energy and producing entropy. At microscopic scales, broken detailed balance enables a suite of molecular and ...

FAM111A (family with sequence similarity 111 member A) is a nuclear trypsin-like peptidase that regulates DNA replication in mammals. Recent research has shown that FAM111A restricts the replication ...