Designing and constructing mechanical systems to operate at a microscale are challenging tasks. Yet, organisms such as fruit flies perform many of the desired movements and functions of a microscale ...

Edited by Kenton Swartz, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD; received November 22, 2024; accepted March 12, 2025 by Editorial Board Member Nieng Yan ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...

Contributed by J. C. Séamus Davis; received November 1, 2024; accepted February 10, 2025; reviewed by Yasutomo J. Uemura and Han Yan ...

In the spring of 2022, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Creek fire burned over 300,000 acres in New Mexico (1), including terrain near the Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in Las Vegas, New Mexico ...

Y.D. and M.B.M. were supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration under the Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Program through the US Department of Energy (DOE) under Grant ...

Contributed by M. Brian Maple; received October 1, 2024; accepted February 13, 2025; reviewed by Satoshi Fujimoto and Xiaolong Liu ...

Illustration of the reorganization of jaw muscles and the skull following an increase in brain size during bird evolution. The avian skull underwent significant modifications during the evolution of ...

P. I. Fields, R. V. Swanson, C. G. Haidaris, F. Heffron, Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that cannot survive within the macrophage are avirulent. Proc. Natl. Acad ...

We thank Xiaoju Li, Haiyan Yu, Xiaomin Zhao, and Sen Wang from Core Facilities for Life and Environmental Sciences of Shandong University for their assistance in X-ray diffraction. We also thank the ...

The authors note “After publication, we observed significant variation in model performance across trials including stochastic and unpredictable behavior during ...

The long-distance dispersal of organisms across oceans to distant islands can result in the evolution of new species lineages. The origin of critically endangered iguanas on the South Pacific islands ...