RIPE Project/Claire Benjamin (photographer), licensed under CC BY 4.0. It seems imperative, then, that we better understand ...

Flowering plants have evolved various types of physical defense mechanisms, such as thorns, prickles, and spines, to protect against herbivory. The common feature of these sharp structures is the ...

Marine heatwaves (MHW) are common destructive events affecting coral reefs. After decades of degradation, the shallow reefs of the United States Virgin Islands have been depleted of scleractinian ...

Edited by Gottfried Schatz, University of Basel, Reinach, Switzerland, and approved July 6, 2012 (received for review May 10, 2012) Based on the results presented here, we propose that in the intact ...

Functional diversity in a lipidome In their study, Schuhmacher et al. (5) use the tools of chemical biology to synthesize individual molecular species of DAG including stearyl arachidonyl DAG (SAG) as ...

A Proposed Structure For The Nucleic Acids Note: The article usage is presented with a three- to four-day delay and will update daily once available. Due to ths delay, usage data will not appear ...

Overuse of agricultural chemicals has resulted in enormous damages to environmental quality and human health in China. Reducing the use of agricultural chemicals to an optimal level is a crucial ...

Hamiltonian Systems and Transformation in Hilbert Space Note: The article usage is presented with a three- to four-day delay and will update daily once available. Due to ths delay, usage data will not ...

Edited by Donald E. Canfield, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M., Denmark, and approved September 11, 2011 (received for review April 18, 2011) ...

Kyeema and Doongara plants were grown at 29°C day/22°C night temperatures during the summer season in a phytotron glasshouse. Stem material was harvested when the top internode of the stem had reached ...

In PNAS, the liquid crystal group of the Soft Materials Research Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by N. A. Clark, reports on the discovery of a ferroelectric nematic fluid N F, an ...

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the Worldwide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties ...