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Thousands of laboratory studies have been conducted on the antibacterial potential of plants since the 1940s. However, a comprehensive review of this body of work, with rigorous inclusion and ...

For over a century, organizations have relied on hierarchy. It's comfortable, predictable, and, for some, deeply ingrained. Decisions flow downward, power stays at the top, and employees are ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of ...

Why Are Anthurium Plants Popular? The exotic-looking heart-shaped “blooms” that make anthurium irresistible as houseplants are, in fact, spathes, or modified leaves surrounding the true flower ...

Scientific community and society encompasses research and material which directly concerns, or is relevant to, members of the community of scientists in particular or society at large. At the ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...

TaxDiff proposes a taxonomic-guided framework that fits all diffusion-based protein design models. We also propose the patchify attention mechanism for better protein design. Experiments demonstrate ...

This functional variation was significantly modulated by the environmental characteristics of seawater but uncoupled from the taxonomic characteristics of bacterial communities (e.g., diversity ...