RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because of
an absence of ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 …

Millions of contemporary young adults use social networking sites. However, little is known
about how much, why, and how they use these sites. In this study, 92 undergraduates …

The control of movement in living organisms represents a fundamental task that the brain
has evolved to solve. One crucial aspect is how the nervous system organizes the …

The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans comprises an ancestral immune system. C.
elegans recognizes and responds to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections. Components of the …

Geometric morphometric methods (GMM), which were developed to characterize the shape
and size of biological organisms, have been applied within zooarchaeology over the past …

The functional role of astrocyte calcium signaling in brain information processing was
intensely debated in recent decades. This interest was motivated by high resolution imaging …

Soil respiration was measured by closed chamber and gradient methods in soils under
forest, sown meadow and crops. Annual total soil respiration determined with the closed …

Integrated information is a quantitative measure from information theory of how tightly all
parts of a system are interconnected in terms of information exchange. In this study we show …

Non-thermal (low-temperature) physical plasma is under intensive study as an alternative
approach to control superficial wound and skin infections when the effectiveness of chemical …