Dunnett et al. (1) conclude that current and predicted priority areas for wind and solar energy development (renewable energy areas, REA) overlap minimally with important conservation areas (PA) in ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their foundational discovery of macroscopic quantum ...

Journal Club posts are short news stories featuring a recent important, timely journal article selected by one of our Journal Club panelists, who are post-doctoral associates and graduate students in ...

NAS members may contribute up to two research manuscripts annually, which must be within the member’s area of expertise and in which the member had a direct, significant role in the design and ...

The Democracy Index finding holds up best. Its negative direct effect on offensive VEI (we use β for SDM coefficients throughout) survives spatial adjustment in every bivariate specification (Table 1) ...

A loaf of bread and a jug of wine: The origins of the ultimate culinary pairing ...

Phagocytosis is a principal component of the body’s innate immunity in which macrophages internalize targets in an actin-dependent manner. Targets vary widely in shape and size and include particles ...

Institutional legitimacy is essential for democracies, yet public trust and confidence in the United States Congress are at an all-time low. A significant predictor of attitudes toward Congress is ...

With scientific integrity and responsibility in mind, the National Academy of Sciences, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at ...

Ultrathin films of widely different materials exhibit a dramatic enhancement of projectile penetration resistance under high–velocity impact. Despite extensive simulations and experiments, a unifying ...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID affect large numbers of people, and constitute a substantial burden to the U.S. and global economies. The article by Eckey et ...

Molecular dynamics simulations of the protein chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 in 8 M urea at 60°C were undertaken to investigate the molecular basis of chemical denaturation. The protein unfolded rapidly ...