PNAS has partnered with the Lasker Foundation to shine a spotlight on this year’s Lasker Awards and their recipients. The Lasker Awards program was created in 1945 by Albert and Mary Lasker. The ...
The world is in a battle for truth. A cadre of researchers is eagerly seeking ways to stymie the spread of mis- and disinformation. The stakes are high. Social media have become an accelerant for the ...
Dunnett et al. (1) conclude that current and predicted priority areas for wind and solar energy development (renewable energy areas, REA) overlap minimally with important conservation areas (PA) in ...
Ning et al. (1) report Archean eclogite-facies metamorphic conditions (792 °C to 890 °C, 19.8 kbar to 24.5 kbar) whereby they argue that deep subduction and thus modern-style plate tectonics have ...
Open in Viewer Experimental protocol (A and B), meal timing effects on depression-like mood (C and D) and on anxiety-like mood (E and F), and the association of depression-like mood (G) and of anxiety ...
Open in Viewer RoBMA PSMA model-averaged posterior mean effect size estimates with 95% credible intervals and Bayes factors for the absence of the effect for the combined sample or split by either the ...
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The biological carbon pump (BCP) stores ∼1,700 Pg C from the atmosphere in the ocean interior, but the magnitude and direction of future changes in carbon sequestration by the BCP are uncertain. We ...
Plastic waste causes harm to marine life and has become a major global environmental concern. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased demand for single-use plastic, intensifying pressure ...
Tropical cyclones (TCs), and particularly major TCs, pose substantial risk to many regions around the globe. Identifying changes in this risk and determining causal factors for the changes is a ...
Contributed by J. C. Séamus Davis, April 27, 2019 (sent for review December 21, 2018; reviewed by Riccardo Comin and Laimei Nie) ...
The ocean and land absorb anthropogenic C O 2 from industrial fossil-fuel emissions and land-use changes, helping to buffer climate change. Here, we compare decadal variability of ocean C O 2 uptake ...