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 ...

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 ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes breakthroughs contributing to the emergence of a new understanding of the computations that underlie human intelligence, with profound implications for ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Y.D. and M.B.M. were supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration under the Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Program through the US Department of Energy (DOE) under Grant ...

Contributed by M. Brian Maple; received October 1, 2024; accepted February 13, 2025; reviewed by Satoshi Fujimoto and Xiaolong Liu ...

Cells can sense when the extracellular matrix has been exposed to matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), even if the exposure is slight and does not alter matrix stiffness. We show that cells sense ...

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 ...

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 ...