The Asian continental collage was formed by the assembly of several continental fragments through multiple subduction-accretion-collision processes. These prolonged tectonic cycles left their imprints on…
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Can we “slice” a spiral arm into its components and order the slices? The Moon orbits around the Earth on a rough circle, the Earth…
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Mobile phones have quickly become a fundamental part of our life and, thus, an important element of our culture. As a cultural object, the mobile…
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In the context of mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers. A rational number is…
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Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) are primitive fishes that mature late and display migratory behavior. There are 25 species of sturgeon in the world and they have substantial…
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Despite its modest physical profile — approximately three pounds of water and fatty tissue — the brain is the most important and complex organ in…
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Like medicine, public health considers itself science-based. Although true in both cases, it is only a partial truth. Just as in medicine, solving problems and…
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The sources of a climate heating pollutant in the Arctic have been deconstructed by our latest study [1], involving radiocarbon isotopes and atmospheric computer modeling….
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Autoimmunity is defined as occurring when the body’s immune system attacks healthy cells of a given organ. Given the process through which humans evolved, logic…
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All cells have ways of conserving energy during times of stress. One strategy is to reuse larger or older cellular structures by encasing them in…
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Ecosystems are knit together by interactions among species, such as competition, herbivory, and predation. One of Darwin’s many interesting ideas was that these interactions are…
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