Journal Club posts are short news stories featuring a recent important, timely journal article selected by one of our Journal Club panelists, who are post-doctoral associates and graduate students in ...

Precipitation shows large year-to-year variations, and there is interest in whether there have been long-lasting changes. We use a global land-based database (1940–2009) of annual precipitation and ...

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) continue to grow. According to the Paris-based International Energy Agency, 2.3 million EVs sold worldwide in the first three months of 2023 alone, which was 25% ...

Contributed by John B. Goodenough, September 30, 2016 (sent for review August 24, 2016; reviewed by Ken Poeppelmeier and Jean-Marie Tarascon) ...

Following severe environmental degradation from rapid economic development, China is now advancing policies to secure biodiversity and ecosystem services. We report the first nationwide assessment, ...

Cnidaria, the sister group of Bilateria, include corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones. They possess neurons, which are organized in a diffuse nerve net. It is generally agreed that cnidarian and ...

Best-subset selection is a benchmark optimization problem in statistics and machine learning. Although many optimization strategies and algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem, our ...

Donald Trump's 2016 victory in the Electoral College without leading in the popular vote has led to speculation of a repeat in 2020. If the Democrats were to win the popular vote but by less than a ...

Extreme precipitation is relevant to many interests, and observations show an increasing trend that is expected to continue under future projections. Although previous work has identified an ...

We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution ...

The ongoing sixth mass extinction may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible. Thousands of populations of critically endangered ...

Emissions from the fossil fuel industry are one of the major sources of atmospheric methane. Gas leakages due to accidents in the oil and gas sector can release large amounts of methane within short ...