As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty ...

Ritual activity is commonly argued to have played an important role in the development of complex sociopolitical formations worldwide. In the Central Andes, where ritual apparently contributed to both ...

In humans, the social environment is one of the strongest predictors of health and lifespan. Similar patterns in other social mammals suggest that this is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history.

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2023YFD1400800) and the Zhejiang Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2020C02001 ...

Cancerous and noncancerous cells can share genetic material through a process called horizontal DNA transfer. The frequency and contribution of horizontal DNA transfer to tumor cell adaptation are ...

Two common findings from past research on sleep duration are that people who sleep too little suffer from various health consequences and that people from some cultures often have sleep durations that ...

In 2006, historian Jo Guldi recalled Google Books as nothing less than a revelation. The company had started digitizing millions of books from university and public libraries. With a single click, ...

Mirror symmetry is a prominent feature of “coconformational mechanically helical chirality.” Nevertheless, when a topological molecule cannot be continuously deformed into its mirror image within ...

We thank Phillip Ipock for experimental support, Dr. Daria Kim for helpful discussions, and Dr. D. Branch Moody for reading and commenting on the manuscript. We also thank Dr. Thomas Dieffenbach of ...

Gels found in nature and synthesized in the laboratory are often made of multiple components. Surprisingly, their properties are not present in their components alone, that is, they are more than the ...

Gain or loss of whole chromosome arms following centromere breaks is frequent in cancer, but whether or not there is a common initiating event is unknown. Here, we show that the total number of ...

Why rates of phenotypic evolution vary across the tree of life is still not well known. A widespread view holds that fast rates result from the colonization of empty adaptive zones, or sets of similar ...