Climate change poses an urgent threat to humans and ecosystems globally; human behavior is both cause and solution. Although a majority of people believe that climate change is occurring, many fail to ...

As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty ...

Heterotrimeric G proteins act as molecular switches that control cellular responses to external signals. Small molecules that selectively inhibit these proteins are essential for studying their ...

Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Surprisingly, a minority within a group sometimes can sway the majority to adopt its preferences ...

In humans, the social environment is one of the strongest predictors of health and lifespan. Similar patterns in other social mammals suggest that this is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history.

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2023YFD1400800) and the Zhejiang Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2020C02001 ...

A mutation in salt-induced kinase 3 (hSIK3-N783Y) is identified in a human subject exhibiting the natural short sleep duration trait. A mouse model carrying this homologous mutation demonstrates ...

Dormancy is a widespread bet-hedging strategy across taxa, enabling organisms to survive natural and anthropogenic disturbances. It fundamentally alters eco-evolutionary processes, including ...

The distribution of organisms throughout the world has been a subject of intense exploration since the seminal work of Alfred Russel Wallace. The intertwined roles among niche specializations, ...

Previously described engineered living materials (ELMs) have been created with nonresponsive, biocompatible polymers by adding living cells to a precursor solution before polymerization, which cells ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2018. In most optics textbooks, one writes the electric field describing ...

Edited by Jiayang Li, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; received June 4, 2024; accepted January 24, 2025 ...