The ability to learn and form memories allows animals to adapt their behavior based on previous experiences. Associative learning, the process through which organisms learn about the relationship ...

A Biometric Study of Human Basal MetabolismNutrition Laboratory and Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution of Washington ...

Laser and photocell quantum heat engines (QHEs) are powered by thermal light and governed by the laws of quantum thermodynamics. To appreciate the ...

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The huge carbon stock in humus layers of the boreal forest plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. However, there remains uncertainty abo ...

To achieve and maintain air-quality standards, US regulations have required significant reductions in the key ozone (O 3) precursor emissions of NO x and CO since the 1960s (1). These emission ...

Denisovans are a sister group of Neandertals that were identified on the basis of a nuclear genome sequence from a bone from Denisova Cave (Siberia). The only other Denisovan specimen described to ...

The spread of rumors has been described as “infection of the mind” (7) or “thought contagion” (8), and their spread is analogous to the spread of an infectious disease: information is passed on from ...

Human learners make inductive inferences based on small amounts of data: we generalize from samples to populations and vice versa. The academic discipline of statistics formalizes these intuitive ...

Animal models and human studies suggest that forever chemicals, delivered through water, food, and air, alter the immune system, potentially diminishing our ability to fight disease or respond to a ...

Reading out the temperature-memory of polymers, which is their ability to remember the temperature where they were deformed recently, is thus far unavoidably linked to erasing this memory effect. Here ...

We formulate and experimentally validate a set of spin–momentum equations which are analogous to the Maxwell’s equations and govern spin–orbit coupling in electromagnetic guided waves. The ...