Contributed by David B. Lobell; received February 5, 2025; accepted April 3, 2025; reviewed by Elizabeth Ainsworth and Francois Tardieu This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural ...

An elastostatic cloak conceals a defect from the material response to (quasi-)static mechanical stimuli under any elastic disturbance to the surrounding medium. Existing optimization-based design ...

As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty ...

Recent research has identified several effective strategies for reducing Americans’ animosity toward supporters of opposing political parties. However, whether these strategies can durably reduce ...

The proteasome is a protein complex that degrades proteins by cleaving substrates into smaller peptides. Most unwanted cellular proteins are earmarked for proteasome-mediated degradation by multimers ...

The use of physical systems as amplifiers has driven significant progress in precision measurements and offer a promising path to achieving precision beyond the standard limits. The key task now is to ...

This is an addendum toComplex viscosity of helical and doubly helical polymeric liquids from general rigid bead-rod theory ...

We thank Phillip Ipock for experimental support, Dr. Daria Kim for helpful discussions, and Dr. D. Branch Moody for reading and commenting on the manuscript. We also thank Dr. Thomas Dieffenbach of ...

In humans, the social environment is one of the strongest predictors of health and lifespan. Similar patterns in other social mammals suggest that this is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history.

Ritual activity is commonly argued to have played an important role in the development of complex sociopolitical formations worldwide. In the Central Andes, where ritual apparently contributed to both ...

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2023YFD1400800) and the Zhejiang Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2020C02001 ...

Why rates of phenotypic evolution vary across the tree of life is still not well known. A widespread view holds that fast rates result from the colonization of empty adaptive zones, or sets of similar ...