The Los Angeles County Fair has something for everyone, including the smallest members of your party. From animal encounters to quieter moments, here is a guide on all you need to know about taking ...

Some of America’s safest cities are in jurisdictions that cooperate with ICE, a trend also shaped by wealth and zoning — with a handful of notable exceptions. Most of the 10 safest cities on U.S. News ...

The Australian Greens have launched their latest effort to legalise recreational cannabis. When Senator David Shoebridge, Greens justice spokesperson, took the Legalising Cannabis Bill to a vote last ...

To mitigate the large demand for safflower picking labour and the low efficiency of manual picking, a safflower picking robot that is based on a parallel manipulator is designed. The whole robot ...

Orchidaceae is the second largest family of flowering plants with more than 27,000 species inhabiting nearly every habitat worldwide. Orchids exhibit an exceptional morphological and ecological ...

Demand for forest products is expected to increase considerably with the projected population growth in the next few decades (FAO et al., 2012). We harvest forest products from wild and cultivated ...

We aimed to develop and validate a grading scale for predicting 30-day mortality and 90-day functional outcome in patients with primary pontine hemorrhage (PPH). We retrospectively reviewed records of ...

Rafflesiaceae produce the world’s largest flowers, but the developmental nature of their floral organs has remained a mystery. Most members of the family have a large floral chamber, which encloses ...

Floral organs are specified by the combinatorial action of MADS-domain transcription factors, yet the mechanisms by which MADS-domain proteins activate or repress the expression of their target genes ...

Floral-meristem identity genes promote flower development by repressing genes that promote an inflorescence fate and activate floral-organ identity genes. The updated ABCE model of floral-organ ...