Four astronauts are hours away from strapping into a spacecraft and departing the International Space Station about a month early after one of them experienced a health issue. The impending departure ...

NASA is bringing some of the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) back to Earth early due to medical concerns with one the astronauts. That shouldn't cause any delays in the preparations ...

Cancer is a common disease among mammals, but some species, such as the naked mole rat and elephants, have evolved resistance. According to new research published in the journal Science Advances, this ...

In October 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated Buncombe County, North Carolina, claiming over 70 lives in what was once considered a climate haven. Asheville, nestled in the temperate Blue Ridge ...

Abstract: In this paper, the opinion coevolution problem is investigated for multiple stubborn individuals within a cooperation-competition network. A new Expressed-Private-Opinion (EPO) model is ...

Deep learning has brought major advances to the analysis of biological sequences. Self-supervised models, based on approaches from natural language processing and trained on large ensembles of protein ...

A long-standing problem in the study of mutualism is to understand the effects of non-mutualistic community members that exploit the benefits of mutualism without offering commodities in exchange (i.e ...

The Earth Transformed seeks to tell the story of climate change without confronting global capitalism. The result is a book that has little to teach us. By Geoff Mann On the morning of 6 April 1815, ...

Constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) involve both conflicting objective functions and various constraints. Due to the presence of constraints, CMOPs' Pareto-optimal solutions are ...

In recent years, phenology – the seasonal timing of biological life cycles – has received increasing attention as climate change threatens to shift phenology. Phenology is crucial to the life cycle of ...