Designing and constructing mechanical systems to operate at a microscale are challenging tasks. Yet, organisms such as fruit flies perform many of the desired movements and functions of a microscale ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...

Contributed by M. Brian Maple; received October 1, 2024; accepted February 13, 2025; reviewed by Satoshi Fujimoto and Xiaolong Liu ...

Illustration of the reorganization of jaw muscles and the skull following an increase in brain size during bird evolution. The avian skull underwent significant modifications during the evolution of ...

P. I. Fields, R. V. Swanson, C. G. Haidaris, F. Heffron, Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that cannot survive within the macrophage are avirulent. Proc. Natl. Acad ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2022, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Creek fire burned over 300,000 acres in New Mexico (1), including terrain near the Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in Las Vegas, New Mexico ...

The long-distance dispersal of organisms across oceans to distant islands can result in the evolution of new species lineages. The origin of critically endangered iguanas on the South Pacific islands ...

S. von Bülow, G. Tesei, F. K. Zaidi, T. Mittag, K. Lindorff-Larsen, Prediction of phase-separation propensities of disordered proteins from sequence. Zenodo. https ...

The authors note that the following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: “S.S. was additionally supported by Pediatric Ophthalmology Career Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

What environments even harbor enough testosterone to support bacterial growth? Testosterone and related steroid hormones occur in the effluent of municipal wastewater treatment plants at ...