Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceBacterial reaction centers are transmembrane protein–cofactor complexes that are central to an ancient and preserved…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceWe use more than 900 million linked employer–employee records covering the entire formal workforce of Brazil to examine when…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceThis work introduces molecular assembly (MA) as a universal, quantitative biosignature that measures how difficult it is to…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceAlthough immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the clinical management of non–small cell lung cancers…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceUnderstanding light propagation and energy deposition in biological tissues is essential for advancing photodynamic and…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceLymphocytes, including T, B, and NK cells, achieve functional maturation through a process known as education, which ensures…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceAnimal groups detect predators using either a many-eyes strategy (all members maintain a low-level vigilance) or a sentinel…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIllegal drug markets generate enormous harms and involve large amounts of money. This article provides a primer on illegal…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceBlack–White mortality disparities remain a persistent form of inequality in the United States. This study provides evidence…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIn modern Africa, savannas cover ~50% of the continent, provide critical ecosystem services, and affect global climate…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. About 3.5 million fishing vessels ply the world’s oceans, providing livelihoods and food for millions of people. Sound management is key…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. In the United States, the legal status of the 30 to 40 million annual firearms transactions is defined by state and federal regulations…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceDiving while supplied by compressed gas can be limited in duration by the need to perform prolonged decompression in order…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIllegal markets present important challenges to society and have distinctive features, but scientific research on them has…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Product counterfeiting is a pervasive crime that involves the unauthorized use of a legitimate trademark, a violation of intellectual…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Criminals launder their proceeds from crime, either themselves or by paying a professional, to disguise the link between the criminal…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. SignificanceIllegal wildlife markets threaten biodiversity conservation, ecosystem stability, and local livelihoods, and their dynamics…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. The illegal market for sex in the United States generates significant economic activity yet remains understudied due to its illegality…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Illegal markets, broadly defined to include markets where only specific transactions are illegal, are the consequence of policy, either…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. This paper discusses the long-standing illegal markets for cigarettes and the more recently emerged illegal markets for e-cigarettes. We…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 33, August 2026. Human smuggling is the facilitation of unlawful cross-border movement. It is primarily a commercial activity, offered as a service to…
People from Chinese, Dutch and Greek cultural backgrounds have the same âtickle hotspotsâ on the body. And ticklishness is stronger in rarely touched areas.
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02535-zTicklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and…
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02542-0Across 14 studies, the authors show that when clinical providers offer reassurance through normalization, this can have paradoxical…
Advocates question if D.C. is violating laws by using opioid settlement money to cover previous costs instead of adding new funding.
The composer Missy Mazzoli, driven by personal loss, has turned America’s overdose epidemic into a dark, fantastical allegory.
Recent studies involving Estonian researchers show that mental health literacy has overlooked paying more attention to the everyday skills people need to support well-being.
The VA has initiated the CRAVE trial to evaluate weekly semaglutide injections for veterans with moderate to severe alcohol use disorder.
Demand for mental health texting support in the overnight hours is now more than 2.5 times* higher than demand at KHP during the day ...
Our profession needs a new code of ethics for this century because the code of ethics we have for the consulting room says nothing about the podcast studio, TikTok or Instagram.