Organic contaminants partition to indoor surfaces, giving rise to human exposure via dermal uptake and nondietary ingestion pathways. However, the total partitioning capacity of indoor surfaces has ...

People remember less of what was encoded into memory as time goes by. However, past research has shown that mentally traveling back in time and remembering the contextual details at encoding, when the ...

Predictability and the pleasure of musicSexual partnerships can have a profound impact on societal well-being and evolution. Their absence can be detrimental to mental health and can lead to ...

This paper is a preliminary report of an investigation dealing with the inheritance of a retinal abnormality in white mice. The problem was undertaken at the suggestion of Dr. S. R. Detwiler who has ...

The boom in installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in recent decades has helped nations tackle their carbon emissions. But the technology has a useful lifespan of about 25–30 years, which ...

This study offers insights into early human–pig interactions during the initial stages of pig domestication in the Lower Yangtze region of South China. By integrating microfossil analysis of dental ...

This study quantifies the accuracy of vote counting in a collection of highly contested and consequential electoral contests. We compiled every available audit of votes cast in the 2020 United States ...

Two common findings from past research on sleep duration are that people who sleep too little suffer from various health consequences and that people from some cultures often have sleep durations that ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant global health burden, yet effective pharmacotherapies remain elusive. The angiotensin-like 1 receptor, also known as the ...

Contributed by Zhi-xun Shen, December 25, 2018 (sent for review September 19, 2018; reviewed by and Peter Armitage and Louis Taillefer) ...

In March 1835, a young Charles Darwin was high up in the Andes and struggling to cook supper. “Our potatoes after remaining for some considerable time in the boiling water were nearly as hard as ever, ...

Cnidaria, the sister group of Bilateria, include corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones. They possess neurons, which are organized in a diffuse nerve net. It is generally agreed that cnidarian and ...