Designing and constructing mechanical systems to operate at a microscale are challenging tasks. Yet, organisms such as fruit flies perform many of the desired movements and functions of a microscale ...

Structural MRIs of the brains of humans with extensive navigation experience, licensed London taxi drivers, were analyzed and compared with those of control subjects who did not drive taxis. The ...

Contributed by M. Brian Maple; received October 1, 2024; accepted February 13, 2025; reviewed by Satoshi Fujimoto and Xiaolong Liu ...

Edited by Lily Jan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute–University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; received August 17, 2024; accepted March 3, 2025 ...

Illustration of the reorganization of jaw muscles and the skull following an increase in brain size during bird evolution. The avian skull underwent significant modifications during the evolution of ...

The authors note that the following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: “S.S. was additionally supported by Pediatric Ophthalmology Career Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar ...

The authors note that Fig. 3 appeared incorrectly. The six panels are labeled incorrectly. The labels A–F should increase row-wise, not column-wise. The corrected figure appears below. The online ...

P. I. Fields, R. V. Swanson, C. G. Haidaris, F. Heffron, Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that cannot survive within the macrophage are avirulent. Proc. Natl. Acad ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...

In the spring of 2022, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Creek fire burned over 300,000 acres in New Mexico (1), including terrain near the Rio Gallinas School for Ecology and the Arts in Las Vegas, New Mexico ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

We thank Xiaoju Li, Haiyan Yu, Xiaomin Zhao, and Sen Wang from Core Facilities for Life and Environmental Sciences of Shandong University for their assistance in X-ray diffraction. We also thank the ...