The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH 4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr −1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH 4 growth have so far been ...

Cities worldwide are experiencing increased extreme heat due to the synergistic effects of global warming and the urban heat island (UHI) effect (1, 2).According to Tuholske et al. (), global exposure ...

Phosphite (HPO 3 2−) is the most energetically favorable biological electron donor known, but only one organism capable of growing by phosphite oxidation has been previously identified.Here, we ...

Root development is tightly controlled by light, and the response is thought to depend on signal transmission from the shoot. Here, we show that the root apical meristem perceives light independently ...

Understanding how ecosystems respond to ubiquitous microplastic (MP) pollution is crucial for ensuring global food security. Here, we conduct a multiecosystem meta-analysis of 3,286 data points and ...

The human brain produces complex spatiotemporal neural dynamics across multiple time and length scales. Abstracting the brain as a large-scale network of discrete interacting regions has proved ...

For millions of years, plants and herbivorous insects have engaged in an intense arms race. To evade or withstand attacks, plants have developed sophisticated immune systems, ranging from signal ...

This study changes our view of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) initiation and progression. Mutations promoting cerebral beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposition guarantee rare genetic forms of AD. Thus, the prevailing ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a mutualistic symbiosis formed between land plants and fungi of the phylum glomeromycotina (1, 2).A hallmark of this alliance is the reciprocal exchange of nutrients: The ...

Biomass-burning organic aerosol(s) (BBOA) not only significantly impact Earth’s climate by absorbing solar radiation but also generate excited triplet states (3 BBOA *) that react with other ...

Fig. 1A shows the schematic of noble-gas spin amplification in the dark. The embedded 87 Rb atoms are optically polarized and probed, and simultaneously used for initializing 129 Xe spin polarization ...

Symbiotic interactions between plants and AM fungi (AMF) are centered around nutrient exchange, with the fungi facilitating plant uptake of phosphorus and other minerals in exchange for carbon ().This ...