As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty ...

There is an urgent requirement to discover new antibiotics. One approach is to use natural products, which are small bioactive molecules that provide producing organisms with beneficial biological ...

Many cities seek to alleviate extreme heat via planting trees. However, the cooling achieved by such programs is debated because previous analyses address scales much smaller than the whole-city scale ...

Sleep need accumulates during waking and dissipates during sleep to maintain sleep homeostasis (process S). Besides the regulation of daily (baseline) sleep amount, homeostatic sleep regulation ...

Nature has evolved enzymes as exceptional catalysts with fast turnover rates and precise specificity. Improving enzyme performance, including activity and stability, is highly desirable in various ...

CDADC1 has evolved in vertebrates, presumably from a dCMP deaminase (DCTD)-like precursor. We show that CDADC1 has (d)CTP deaminase activity previously known only from prokaryotic and phage biology, ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a pressing global health challenge driven by human antibiotic consumption, among other factors. In this report, we investigate trends in human antibiotic consumption in 67 ...

Significance Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide. However, there remains a fundamental knowledge gap in ...

The Earth’s rotation has been decelerating throughout its history due to tidal dissipation, but the variation of the rate of this deceleration through time has not been established. We present a ...

This study establishes a causal link between information and communication technology (ICT) usage and workforce geographical diversity, offering insights into how technology shapes labor mobility and ...

The discovery and engineering of herbicide-resistant genes represent a critical frontier in modern crop breeding. Here, we focused on unraveling the intricate mechanisms underlying herbicide ...

The deterioration of the world’s ecosystems has led to numerous calls for effective and scalable conservation solutions [e.g., (1, 2)]. While conservation can include a broad range of actions, the ...