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Multimodal information structuring with single-layer soft skins and high-density electrical impedance tomography
High-density impedance measurements were used to monitor multimodal stimuli from single-layer skins over a hollow 3D hand.
A spatially organized Cd24a+/Pax9+ stem cell core governs postnatal tooth establishment
A conserved and spatially organized Cd24a+/Pax9+ core governs postnatal tooth establishment, guided by PDGFB from alveolar bone.
Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico
Additional data from an adjacent ancient lake support a 23,000-year-old age for human tracks in New Mexico.
I study burnout. I didn’t think it could happen to me
“I knew the risk factors … but I had completely ignored them creeping into my own life,” this researcher writes
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COVER The Amazon forest is changing rapidly as a result of human activities, including deforestation for agriculture, such as these soybean fields in Belterra, Pará,…
This ancient giraffe relative head-butted rivals with an ‘amazing sexual weapon’
Fossil suggests the giraffe’s long neck could have evolved for getting mates, not leaves
In-insect synthesis of oxygen-doped molecular nanocarbons
Many functional molecules and materials have been produced with organic chemistry or with in vitro enzymatic approaches. Individual organisms, such as insects, have the potential…
Pan-viral ORFs discovery using massively parallel ribosome profiling
Defining viral proteomes is crucial to understanding viral life cycles and immune recognition but the landscape of translated regions remains unknown for most viruses. We…
‘Truly amazing’: Octopuses ‘taste’ harmful microbes with their suckers
Unique ability allows the animals to protect themselves and their offspring from decaying food and other material