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Terrestrial ecosystem nitrogen cycling in response to field warming: Global patterns and future trends

Nitrogen cycling regulates ecosystem productivity and carbon storage, yet its global responses, mechanisms, and future trajectories under climate warming remain poorly understood. By integrating 7,941 ...
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Directed interactions between electrophysiological, vascular, and fluid dynamics in the sleeping brain

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Multivalent mRNA vaccine platform with compatible antigens conferred broad-spectrum protection against orthoebolaviruses’ exposure

This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB0490000 to S.C., Y.W., C.W., E.L. and Y.Y.), the National Key Research and ...
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Wind turbine proximity and health: Longitudinal evidence from US households

Wind energy expansion is crucial for decarbonization but faces community resistance due to health concerns about turbine noise and infrasound. We combine US wind turbine data (2011–2023) with ...
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Human amplification of climate-induced greenhouse gas emissions from global small water bodies

Small water bodies (SWBs) are critical but often overlooked components of the global carbon cycle. We demonstrate that human activities, particularly agricultural nutrient loading and urbanization, ...
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A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review

It’s increasingly hard to find peer reviewers. To address the problem, we propose a universal peer-review system based on the exchange of credits. Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist). Several factors ...
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Stable flapping flight in morphological space: Model, simulation, and explicit stability criteria

Insects were the first organisms to evolve flight and have since become the most abundant species on Earth. However, the lack of well-defined flight traits and predictive theory has made it difficult ...
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The pig in the python: US decennial labor flows and economic opportunity, 1910–2040

The large size of the baby boom cohort depressed economic opportunities for that generation as it flooded the labor force in the 1970s. Contrary to the predictions of Richard Easterlin’s relative ...
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Force patterning drives quasistratification and graded tissue-scale spatial order in auditory epithelia

The ordered arrangement of mechanosensory hair cells in vertebrate auditory epithelia relies on mechanical interactions among multiple cell types. Yet, how local mechanical heterogeneity produces ...
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Design of an ultrabright biosensor for dynamic imaging of kinase activity in cells

Figures were generated with Biorender.com. We thank Drs. A. Inoue and D. Ma for sharing the cells, E.Q. Chen for generating the 3D movie, and Dr. R. Irannejad for constructive comments and suggestions ...
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THE KINETICS OF FORMATION OF NATIVE RIBONUCLEASE DURING OXIDATION OF THE REDUCED POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN

While generative AI has been shown to enhance productivity, its influence on learning new skills remains unclear. Our research examines the impact of generative AI, specifically GPT-4, on student ...