As quantitative targets for day- and night-time light exposure and avoidance start to appear, there is a need for descriptions of existing patterns of light exposure in human populations and their ...

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Peto’s paradox—the puzzling disconnect between body size and cancer prevalence across species—has long stood as one of comparative biology’s most captivating and unresolved enigmas. Through the ...

Protein therapeutics hold immense promise for treating infectious diseases and genetic disorders. However, their efficacy is substantially limited by the challenge of delivering proteins to specific ...

We show that effector deployment at the earliest stages of infection by plant-parasitic nematodes is defined by a feedforward signaling loop, centered on a transcriptional regulator, SUGR-1, and ...

Soils contain the largest pool of organic carbon near the surface of the Earth and represent a natural carbon sink that helps to buffer against anthropogenic carbon emissions and land-use changes.

Agriculture is one of the main drivers of global land use change (LUC) as well as terrestrial carbon and biodiversity losses. While the environmental footprint from agricultural production could be ...

Healthy brain function requires a delicate balance of neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I). In animals, this balance—the E/I ratio—is known to decrease with the maturation of inhibitory circuitry ...

Fifty years ago, bacteria were identified as remarkable ice nucleators that enable water freezing close to 0 °C. Their record-holding activity is key for frost damage to crops and snow making. While ...

The development of nanotechnology has enabled precision and sustainable agriculture. The controllability and targeting of nanoparticles (NPs) will accelerate the development of modern agriculture.

Using data from 100 healthy young participants studied during a 9-d inpatient protocol, we constructed analytic action spectra for melatonin suppression and circadian phase resetting in response to ...

Lithium metal batteries are considered as the highly promising candidates for new-generation energy storage systems while the poor cycling stability originated from unstable anodes strongly limit ...