Open in Viewer (A) Schematic of a photocell consisting of quantum dots sandwiched between p and n doped semiconductors. Open circuit voltage and solar photon energy ℏνh are related by the Carnot ...

Meteorites provide important information about the formation of the Solar System and the distribution of solids and volatiles throughout it. However, meteorites that land on Earth display biases ...

Mandatory and voluntary mask policies may have yet unknown social and behavioral consequences related to the effectiveness of the measure, stigmatization, and perceived fairness. Serial ...

Assessing the ergodicity of graphene liquid cell electron microscope measurements, we report that loop states of circular DNA interconvert reversibly and that loop numbers follow the Boltzmann ...

Correction for Yang et al., How surface charges affect interdroplet freezing ...

PLANT BIOLOGY Correction for “Drought delays development of the sorghum root microbiome and enriches for monoderm bacteria,” by Ling Xu, Dan Naylor, Zhaobin Dong, Tuesday Simmons, Grady Pierroz, Kim K ...

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Extracellular redox-active compounds, flavins and other quinones, have been hypothesized to play a major role in the delivery of electrons from cellular metabolic systems to extracellular insoluble ...

Sleeping Beauty was the first DNA transposon system shown to be functional in mammalian cells. It has been tested for insertional mutagenesis in the mouse and rat germ lines (8 – 13), but its ...

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 ...