these ants are different species but share a mother
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male…
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races…
Are ultra-processed foods really so unhealthy? What the science says
In the early 2000s, Brazilian nutrition researcher Carlos Monteiro made a puzzling discovery that led to an epiphany.…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time
Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast…
Probing stress and magnetism at high pressures with two-dimensional quantum sensors
Doherty, M. W. et al. Electronic properties and metrology applications of the diamond NV-center under pressure. Phys. Rev.…
AI edge cloud service provisioning for knowledge management smart applications
Smart cities enhance the quality of life of its residents, and promote transparent management of public resources, including…
CRFTS: a cluster-centric and reservation-based fault-tolerant scheduling strategy to enhance QoS in cloud computing
This section explains the proposed CRFTS model, which uses a clustering approach for allocation and the advance reservation…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…
Natural allelic variation in SW14 determines seed weight and quality in soybean
Plant materials and growth conditions The 320 previously sequenced accessions16 utilized for GWAS, and an F2 population (n = 280)…
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789
Lefebvre, G. The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton Univ. Press, 1983). Del Vicario,…