Contributed by M. Brian Maple, July 3, 2018 (sent for review April 23, 2018; reviewed by Filip Ronning and Brian C. Sales) ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment to test the impacts of human activity on urban-dwelling wildlife. Urban dark-eyed juncos differ in bill shape and size in Los Angeles in comparison ...

How human brain function is established through protracted trajectories of development is not yet fully understood. Maturation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) circuits drives critical periods of ...

We examine i) whether the public views AI as labor-replacing rather than labor-creating, and ii) how these perceptions affect two core democratic outcomes: democratic legitimacy (e.g., satisfaction ...

J. Allen, C. Martel, D. G. Rand, “Birds of a feather don’t fact-check each other: Partisanship and the evaluation of news in Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced fact-checking program” in Proceedings of ...

For a number of years, I have argued that we are now, thanks to the effects of human-caused warming, experiencing a new class of monster storms—”category 6” hurricanes. That is to say, we are ...

The western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) channels moisture from the tropics that underpins the East Asian summer climate. Interannual variability of the WPSH dominates climate extremes in the ...

A number of trends in national and international politics greatly affect our capacity to achieve the cooperation that will be necessary to address the challenges facing society over the coming decades ...

Curbing climate change goes hand-in-hand with decarbonizing energy production. But how can communities continue to meet the global demand for electricity without releasing more CO 2? A cadre of ...

We live in a giant barred spiral galaxy. The Milky Way’s fast-spinning disk of stars and gas whips up spiral arms that spawn new suns, while a bar of mostly older stars cuts through its heart. From ...

The authors note, “We have become aware of an error in some of our calculations of exceedance probability and these errors affect some of the numbers published in ...

The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) is native to Asia (Fig. 1 A), where it is a predator of arthropods, including honey bees (1). Attacks by V. mandarinia on beehives involve pheromone marking ...