The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Interdisciplinary research and education, communication and collaboration - this is how you can summarize the mission of the Center for the Sea and Society. We work for broad collaborations, both with ...

SINGAPORE – It may not always be possible to find common ground as Singapore’s society changes, said Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong. “But the goal should always be to ...

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The wealthy are seen as playing a malign role in society. Two-thirds of respondents believe the wealthy fail to pay appropriate taxes and laws that serve the wealthy come at the detriment of ...

Caption Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents ...

A discussion of the implications, opportunities, and liabilities of the diffusion of AI for research in a few representative fields of science follows this. Finally, we address the potential risks of ...

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the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less.” While Venn diagrams may not have solved any long-standing open problems, surely these ...

The emergence of a polite, lying society might be due to a combination of technological change and sloppy government. Chart: The Economist For many years the British Social Attitudes Survey has ...