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 ...

Despite the widespread success of neural networks, their susceptibility to adversarial examples remains a significant challenge. Adversarial training (AT) has emerged as an effective approach to ...

Marine communities around the world show trophic convergence in similar environments, complementing our understanding of the factors that determine the biogeography of marine species. The existence of ...

E.F.’s research is supported by the project INIC-UV UVA22991; as well as the Fondecyt Project Number 1211323. N. V. Grishin, Y. I. Wolf, E. V. Koonin, From complete genomes to measures of substitution ...

Neuropsychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia, are linked to cortical neuron atrophy and reduced neuronal spine density, a measure of neuroplasticity. Psychedelic drugs, such as lysergic acid ...

Despite decades of research, psychiatrists still don’t have reliable biomarkers to trace the path of human misery. The complexity and heterogeneity of psychiatric conditions means that there are no ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...