This case illustrates a recurring dilemma in AI governance. As large language models (LLMs) and autonomous decision-making ...

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Edited by Paul Falkowski, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; received October 29, 2025; accepted January 31, 2026 ...

Marine heatwaves (MHW) are common destructive events affecting coral reefs. After decades of degradation, the shallow reefs of the United States Virgin Islands have been depleted of scleractinian ...

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We examine i) whether the public views AI as labor-replacing rather than labor-creating, and ii) how these perceptions affect two core democratic outcomes: democratic legitimacy (e.g., satisfaction ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment to test the impacts of human activity on urban-dwelling wildlife. Urban dark-eyed juncos differ in bill shape and size in Los Angeles in comparison ...

Assessing the ergodicity of graphene liquid cell electron microscope measurements, we report that loop states of circular DNA interconvert reversibly and that loop numbers follow the Boltzmann ...