The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in ...

An update of votes for Los Angeles mayor, reported by media outlets, led some observers to believe there was a large batch of votes counted that included zero votes for candidate Spencer Pratt. There ...

Mathly for Lua is a Lua module that turns Lua into a tiny, portable, free but powerful MATLAB and more. It provides a group of commonly used MATLAB functions and features, including linspace, zeros, ...

Internal planetary field code from spherical harmonics, in IDL, MATLAB and Python. This is part of a community code project: Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets Group ...

It is now well established that memories can reactivate during non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep, but the question of whether equivalent reactivation can be detected in rapid eye movement (REM) ...

Correlation coefficients are often compared to investigate data across multiple research fields, as they allow investigators to determine different degrees of correlation to independent variables.

The knowledge of nonliterate societies may vanish in silence jeopardizing indigenous peoples’ livelihoods. Yet, this cultural component is missed by studies on ecosystem services that have ...

Everyday conversation requires listeners to quickly recognize verbal actions, so-called speech acts, from the underspecified linguistic code and prepare a relevant response within the tight time ...

This paper provides an analysis of the correlated evolution of limb biomechanics and mechanosensation. We found that in multiple independent evolutions of stiff fins there was concurrent evolution of ...

The fundamental biological properties of proteins—binding, catalysis and allosteric communication—emerge from a global pattern of interactions between all constituent atoms. Often, this pattern is ...