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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

S. von Bülow, G. Tesei, F. K. Zaidi, T. Mittag, K. Lindorff-Larsen, Prediction of phase-separation propensities of disordered proteins from sequence. Zenodo. https ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

C.Y. and X.-F.W. wrote the paper. Z.-Z. Wu et al., Erythroid progenitor cell–mediated spleen–tumor interaction deteriorates cancer immunity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci ...

What environments even harbor enough testosterone to support bacterial growth? Testosterone and related steroid hormones occur in the effluent of municipal wastewater treatment plants at ...

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 ...

Edited by Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received November 27, 2024; accepted February 21, 2025 ...