Understanding how different species are evolutionarily related is key to addressing fundamental questions in biology and medicine. Scientists use species trees to describe these relationships, and ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant global health burden, yet effective pharmacotherapies remain elusive. The angiotensin-like 1 receptor, also known as the ...

Clownfishes in coral garden. Image credit: iStock/fototrav. How sea anemones influence clownfish diversification Well-known for their bright color patterns, clownfishes are found on tropical coral ...

Marine communities around the world show trophic convergence in similar environments, complementing our understanding of the factors that determine the biogeography of marine species. The existence of ...

In 2006, historian Jo Guldi recalled Google Books as nothing less than a revelation. The company had started digitizing millions of books from university and public libraries. With a single click, ...

Bacterial conjugation is a key driver in the spread of antibiotic resistance. Despite extensive knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, the dynamics of plasmid transfer within spatially ...

Despite the widespread success of neural networks, their susceptibility to adversarial examples remains a significant challenge. Adversarial training (AT) has emerged as an effective approach to ...

Edited by Zsuzsanna Zsengeller, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; received September 12, 2024; accepted March 8, 2025 by Editorial Board Member Carl F. Nathan ...

Edited by Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; received December 20, 2024; accepted March 18, 2025 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of gathering information on pathogen characteristics as early as possible when an outbreak strikes. But it also underscored how quickly much of that ...

Wildlife biologist David Wiens was extremely nervous the first time he shot an owl. He steadied himself in the evening darkness of an Oregon fire road, pointed his shotgun at a big barred owl perched ...

We thank Xiaoju Li, Haiyan Yu, Xiaomin Zhao, and Sen Wang from Core Facilities for Life and Environmental Sciences of Shandong University for their assistance in X-ray diffraction. We also thank the ...