The global transport of heat and momentum in turbulent convection is constrained by thin thermal and viscous boundary layers at the heated and cool ...

Feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations contribute the second-largest uncertainty to projections of future climate. These feedbacks, acting over huge regions and long ...

Using data from rural monitoring sites across the contiguous United States, we evaluated fine particulate matter (PM2.5) trends for 1988–2016. We calculate trends in the policy-relevant 98th quanti ...

The valence band maxima of most group VI transition metal dichalcogenide thin films remain at the Γ point all of the way from bulk to bilayer. In this paper, we develop a continuum theory of the moiré ...

Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, a century in waitingThe property n ^ ≡ n ^ shapes an anisotropic dielectric response to an electric field. When the field E acts on N, positive and negative ...

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Although the impacts of the loss of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning are well established, the importance of the loss of biodiversity relative to other human-caused drivers of environmental ...

During deetiolation of Arabidopsis seedlings, light promotes the expansion of cotyledons but inhibits the elongation of hypocotyls. The mechanism of this differential regulation of cell enlargement ...

The Gulf Stream front separates the North Atlantic subtropical and subpolar ocean gyres, which have very distinct physical, biological, and chemical properties. Exchange across the front is believed ...

Water droplets on rugged hydrophobic surfaces typically exhibit one of the following two states: (i) the Wenzel state [Wenzel RN (1936) Ind Eng Che ...

Principal components analysis and, more generally, the Singular Value Decomposition are fundamental data analysis tools that express a data matrix ...

Many cities seek to alleviate extreme heat via planting trees. However, the cooling achieved by such programs is debated because previous analyses address scales much smaller than the whole-city scale ...