Algal blooms appear to be increasing on benthic substrates of naturally nutrient-poor lakes worldwide, yet common drivers across these systems remain elusive. The phenomenon has been notable in ...

A set of genes, including a lectin, two scavenger receptors and two actin regulators, were found to aid the early steps of coral-algal endosymbiosis, including algae recognition and uptake, in a Xenia ...

Biodiversity affects many ecosystem functions and services, including carbon cycling and retention. While it is known that the efficiency of carbon capture and biomass production by ecological ...

The influential concept of the rare biosphere in microbial ecology has underscored the importance of taxa occurring at low abundances yet potentially playing key roles in communities and ecosystems.

Metabolism is one of the strongest drivers of interkingdom interactions-including those between microorganisms and their multicellular hosts. Traditionally thought to fuel energy requirements and ...

The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex barycentric ...

While natural communities can contain hundreds of species, modern coexistence theory focuses primarily on species pairs. Alternatively, the structural stability approach considers the feasibility of ...

The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2 (SEGUE-2) obtained 128,288 low-resolution spectra (R similar to 1800) of 118,958 unique stars in the first year of the Sloan Digital ...

For the first time on Mars, the crystalline magnesium-sulfate mineral starkeyite (MgSO4 center dot 4H(2)O) was definitively identified using the CheMin X-ray diffraction instrument at Gale crater. At ...

Proteins are workhorses in the cell; they form stable and more often dynamic, transient protein-protein interactions, assemblies, and networks and have an intimate interplay with DNA and RNA. These ...

We have studied the high-pressure vibrational and structural behavior of bulk graphite and graphene nanoplatelets at room temperature by means of high-pressure Raman spectroscopic and x-ray ...

Data-driven discovery in geoscience requires an enormous amount of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data derived from a multitude of sources. Many geology resources include data ...