Ongoing ocean acidification affects marine calcification, although the scope and magnitude of this impact is essentially unknown. Here, we investigate the evolutionary origin of shell building in foraminifera to understand ...

Thermokarst lakes are important conduits for organic carbon sequestration, soil organic matter (soil-OM) decomposition and release of atmospheric greenhouse gases in the Arctic. They can be classified as either floating-ice ...

A major step in the long-term Cenozoic evolution toward a glacially driven climate occurred at the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT), ∼1/434.44 to 33.65 million years ago (Ma). Evidence for high-latitude cooling and increased ...

Borage (Borago officinalis L.) is an oilseed that is being increasingly grown in areas where salinity affects yield. Silicon (Si) supplementation is considered a promising method to improve plant growth in saline conditions, ...

The aim of this short note is twofold. First, we formulate the general Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model incorporating static heterogeneity and show how it simplifies to a scalar Renewal Equation (RE) when separable mixing ...

Aspergilli can be used to produce food but can spoil it as well. Both food production and spoilage are initiated by germination of the conidia of these fungi that have been introduced by inoculation and contamination, ...

Although parent-child discrepancies in reports of parenting are known to be associated with child depressive symptoms, the direction of causality is unknown. To address this knowledge gap, this study contributes to existing ...

Background: Recent advances in data-driven computational approaches have been helpful in devising tools to objectively diagnose psychiatric disorders. However, current machine learning studies limited to small homogeneous ...

Four new volcano-sedimentary complexes (VSC's), respectively c. 3510, 3460, 3430, and 3320 Ma old, are identified in the East Strelley, Coongan, and Kelly belts of the East Pilbara craton and compared with the extraordinarily ...

Earthquakes are complex physical processes driven by stick-slip motion on a sliding fault. After the main event, a series of aftershocks is usually observed. The latter are loosely defined as earthquakes that follow a ...