Environmental damage from insecticide overuse is a major concern, particularly for conservation of “good” insects such as pollinators that ensure stable production of food crops like fruits and ...

Over two decades ago, increased levels of RNA oxidation were reported in postmortem patients with ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases. Interestingly, not all cell types ...

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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 ...

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Global change is challenging plant and animal populations with novel environmental conditions, including increased atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, warmer temperatures, and altered precipitation ...

Sleep represents a window of opportunity to modulate the mnemonic fate of recent experiences. Prior work has shown that delivering auditory reminder cues can slow down overnight forgetting, and so ...

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Edited by Eva Andrei, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; received March 14, 2024; accepted August 13, 2024 Part of the challenge in pinpointing the dominant origin of RTN is ...

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 ...

Plasmonic materials have been touted as ideal photocatalysts due to their extremely large optical cross-sections and ability to generate uniquely energetic nanoscale environments. However, many ...