Wildlife biologist David Wiens was extremely nervous the first time he shot an owl. He steadied himself in the evening darkness of an Oregon fire road, pointed his shotgun at a big barred owl perched ...

E.F.’s research is supported by the project INIC-UV UVA22991; as well as the Fondecyt Project Number 1211323. N. V. Grishin, Y. I. Wolf, E. V. Koonin, From complete genomes to measures of substitution ...

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 ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of gathering information on pathogen characteristics as early as possible when an outbreak strikes. But it also underscored how quickly much of that ...

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 ...