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Area-wide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) adoption suppresses pests regionally, with declines expanding beyond the planted Bt crops into other non-Bt crop fields. The offsite benefits to vegetable crops from such pest suppression have not been...

Restriction site variation in DNA that encodes rRNA (rDNA) was surveyed among 714 offspring within 31 lineages (26 genotypes) of obligate asexually reproducing Taraxacum officinale (dandelions). Although clonal offspring are expected, plants with...

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously treatment resistant. These tumors rely on lysosome-dependent recycling pathways to generate substrates for metabolism, which are inhibited by chloroquine (CQ) and its derivatives. However, clinical efficacy of CQ as...

Onshore oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and potentially pose hazards to human health, but scientific evidence on their health effects is lacking. We fill this gap by studying the causal effects of onshore oil spills on...

Heat early warning systems and action plans have been shown to reduce risks of heat exposure, and best practice recommends that plans be built around local epidemiologic evidence and emergency management capacity. This evaluation provides useful...

Although sexual selection can provide benefits to both sexes, it also can be costly because of expanded opportunities for intersexual conflict. We evaluated the role of sexual selection in a naturally promiscuous species, Drosophila melanogaster ....

Among the fundamental questions regarding cultivated plants is their geographic origin and region of domestication. The genus Cucumis , which includes cucumber ( Cucumis sativus ) and melon ( Cucumis melo ), has numerous wild African species, and it...

We combine proxy sea level records, downscaled tropical cyclone data sets, and storm surge models to investigate the impacts of rising sea levels and tropical cyclones on coastal inundation in New York City. The flood risk for New York City due to...

A recently developed technique for simulating large [O(104)] numbers of tropical cyclones in climate states described by global gridded data is applied to simulations of historical and future climate states simulated by six Coupled Model...

Fisher et al. (1) investigate the congruence between intraindividual correlations and cross-sectional correlations using six empirical datasets. While others have emphasized that there is no mathematical law dictating that these correlations should...

The brain is organized into processing streams, along which incoming sensory information is processed at increasingly abstract and integrative levels. This specialization of function is thought to be underpinned by corresponding changes in the...

This study examines a question in memory research that has been extant since the observation of temporally graded retrograde amnesia in patient HM after temporal lobe resection; namely, how does the circuit structure underlying memory change over...

Comparative connectomics provides a powerful framework for studying cross-species differences in brain network architecture, offering important insights into the origin of human brain function. The present study highlights key differences between...

In litter-bearing species, females exposed to prenatal testosterone from male littermates exhibit altered traits. In humans, rising twinning rates may be exposing a growing subset of females to similar effects. Data on all twin births in Norway...

Studies show that women are more risk averse than men. We explore sources and malleability of such differences in a setting where children of two culturally distinct populations, the matrilineal Mosuo and the traditionally patriarchal Han, come...