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- March 11, 2025
- vol. 122
- no. 10
- Nucleotide sequence data are being harnessed to identify species, even in cases in which organisms themselves are neither in hand nor witnessed. But how genome-wide sequence divergence maps to species status is far from clear. While gene sequence ...
- For many countries, large-scale tree planting is a crucial component of their decarbonization plans. This paper positions those decisions in the context of the substantial uncertainties surrounding both future climatic and economic conditions. ...To meet decarbonization targets, nations around the globe have made ambitious commitments to expand forested land. Operationalizing these commitments requires choosing a planting strategy: How many trees should be planted, of which species, and where? ...
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- Age-related cognitive decline is associated with metabolic, vascular, and inflammatory changes, making it challenging to distinguish primary causes from secondary (downstream) effects. This study demonstrates that brain aging follows a ...Understanding the key drivers of brain aging is essential for effective prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we integrate human brain and physiological data to investigate underlying mechanisms. Functional MRI analyses across four ...
- In sophisticated auditory–motor learning such as musical instrument learning, little is understood about how brain plasticity develops over time and how the related individual variability is reflected in the neural architecture. In a ...The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to ...
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