{"title":"The moving mantle beneath Hawaii: A new look at an old bend.","authors":"R Dietmar Müller","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2524801122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524801122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"17 1","pages":"e2524801122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Auspurg: On the limits of \"justified\" model spaces.","authors":"Michael Ganslmeier,Tim Vlandas","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2523374122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2523374122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"20 1","pages":"e2523374122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A yellow warbler is for the climate as a canary is for the coal mine.","authors":"Peter R Grant","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2524799122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524799122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"53 1","pages":"e2524799122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rena M Schweizer,Jared A Grummer,Kerrigan B Tobin,Renee Corpuz,Scott M Geib,Diana Cox-Foster,Lynn S Kimsey,Jonathan B Uhuad Koch,Michael G Branstetter
{"title":"Museum genomics suggests long-term population decline in a putatively extinct bumble bee.","authors":"Rena M Schweizer,Jared A Grummer,Kerrigan B Tobin,Renee Corpuz,Scott M Geib,Diana Cox-Foster,Lynn S Kimsey,Jonathan B Uhuad Koch,Michael G Branstetter","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2509749122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509749122","url":null,"abstract":"Pollinator declines globally threaten ecosystem stability and agricultural productivity. Reconstructing pollinator historic demographies provides an evolutionary perspective to understand contemporary population declines. The Franklin bumble bee (Bombus franklini), once endemic to Oregon and California and last observed alive in 2006, is emblematic of this phenomenon. We collected whole-genome sequence data from museum specimens spanning four decades to elucidate the genetic and demographic history of this potentially extinct species. Heterozygosity estimates of 25 individuals were remarkably low, and runs of homozygosity (ROH) patterns identified short segments suggestive of historical inbreeding, with some individuals having almost entire chromosomes in ROH. Demographic reconstructions revealed a marked decline in effective population size beginning in the late Pleistocene, with further declines in the last 400 y, which may have been influenced by fire and drought stressors. We found little to no genomic evidence implicating pathogens in the species' decline and used coalescent simulations to show that we would be able to detect recently reduced heterozygosity only when colony-level survival rates are 15 to 30%. We conclude that a combination of historically low effective population size and genetic diversity along with environmental stochasticity heightened this species' extinction vulnerability prior to recent anthropogenic stressors. This study demonstrates the utility of museum collections for clarifying genetic and demographic dynamics of rare species and suggests that B. franklini may have already been on a trajectory of decline prior to human impacts.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"68 1","pages":"e2509749122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viscoelastic structural damping enables broadband low-frequency sound absorption.","authors":"Yanlin Zhang,Junyin Li,Qiongying Wu,Marco Amabili,Diego Misseroni,Hanqing Jiang","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2520808122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520808122","url":null,"abstract":"Low-frequency sound absorption has traditionally relied on air-resonant structures, such as Helmholtz resonators, which are made of stiff materials that undergo negligible deformation. In these systems, energy dissipation arises primarily from air motion and thermal-viscous effects, resulting in inherently narrowband performance and bulky, complex designs for broadband absorption. Here, we presented a composite acoustic metamaterial that replaces the high-stiffness neck of a Helmholtz resonator with a soft, viscoelastic cylindrical shell. This structural modification enables material deformation and shifts the dominant energy dissipation mechanism from air resonance to intrinsic viscoelastic damping. A single unit achieves over 97% absorption across a broad low-frequency range (227 to 329 Hz) with deep-subwavelength thickness (λ/15 at 227 Hz). We developed a discretized impedance model that quantitatively links material properties and geometry to absorption behavior. Our results established a materials-centered design paradigm in which both material selection and geometry serve as coequal, tunable parameters for compact, broadband low-frequency sound control.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"78 1","pages":"e2520808122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impactor relics of CI-like chondrites in Chang'e-6 lunar samples.","authors":"Jintuan Wang,Zhiming Chen,Zexian Cui,Qing Yang,Le Zhang,Pengli He,Jingyou Chen,Chengyuan Wang,Yan-Qiang Zhang,Jiangze Wang,Yonghua Cao,James W Head,Hugh O'Neill,Akira Tsuchiyama,Yuri Amelin,Maxwell M Thiemens,Chang-Ming Xing,Bo Wei,Wenhua Lu,Mang Lin,Yi-Gang Xu","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2501614122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501614122","url":null,"abstract":"The impact history of the Moon provides the opportunity to better understand mass transfer in the Solar System. While Earth's meteorite collection serves as a key reference for material flux in the Earth-Moon system, it suffers from profound biases arising from Earth's orbital dynamics and atmospheric filtering. Systematic identification and classification of meteorites on the airless Moon thus provide additional critical constraints for reconstructing the primordial accretion history and impactor population of the inner Solar System. However, identifying impactors on the Moon remains challenging due to their vaporization upon colliding at high velocities with the lunar surface. In situ remote sensing has previously detected chondritic impactor materials in the South-Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin of the far side of the Moon. The first opportunity to measure materials from the SPA basin has come via the Chang'e-6 (CE-6) mission, which returned samples from the Apollo basin inside the SPA basin. In this study, we screened seven olivine-porphyritic clasts as potential impactor relics in regolith returned by the CE-6 mission. These clasts were identified, via textural characterization, olivine Fe-Mn-Zn systematics, and in-situ triple oxygen isotopes, as impact relics solidified from melted chondritic parent bodies. Intriguingly, the parent body of all the identified impactor relics in this study resemble CI-like chondrites, a volatile-rich meteorite group that is relatively rare in Earth's meteorite collection. The detection and classification of these impactor relics impose significant constraints on the proportions of meteoritic materials in the Earth-Moon system and their potential contributions to water inventories on the lunar surface.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"160 1","pages":"e2501614122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angeline S Lillard,David Loeb,Juliette Berg,Maya Escueta,Karen Manship,Alison Hauser,Emily D Daggett
{"title":"A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten.","authors":"Angeline S Lillard,David Loeb,Juliette Berg,Maya Escueta,Karen Manship,Alison Hauser,Emily D Daggett","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2506130122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506130122","url":null,"abstract":"Although seminal studies from the early 1960s suggested quality preschool can have lasting positive effects, agreement is lacking on the efficacy of different preschool models. The Montessori model is longstanding but lacks rigorous impact studies; prior random lottery studies included just one or two schools, among other compromises. Here, we report on end-of-kindergarten (age 5 to 6) impacts from a national study of public Montessori preschool. We compared children offered a Montessori seat via competitive lottery admission processes at one of 24 public Montessori schools at age 3 ([Formula: see text]) to children not offered a seat ([Formula: see text]), estimating Montessori impacts with intention-to-treat and complier average causal effect models. Roughly half of the treatment sample still attended Montessori for kindergarten. Although there were no notable impacts at the end of PK3 or PK4, at the end of kindergarten, controlling for baseline scores and demographics, Montessori children had significantly higher reading, short-term memory, theory of mind, and executive function scores. Intention-to-treat effect sizes exceeded a fifth of a SD, considered large in field-based school research [M. A. Kraft, Educ. Res. 49, 241-253 (2020)]. This contrasts sharply with the more typical finding, where impacts of preschool are observed immediately following the program but disappear by the end of kindergarten. Further, a cost analysis suggested three years of public Montessori preschool costs less per child than traditional programs, largely due to Montessori having higher child:teacher ratios in PK3 and PK4. Although sensitivity and robustness analyses yielded similar results, important limitations of the study should be noted.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"41 1","pages":"e2506130122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolutionary histories of functional mutations during the domestication and spread of japonica rice in Asia.","authors":"Ornob Alam,Rafal Gutaker,Niketh Surya,Cristina Castillo,Dorian Fuller,Jade d'Alpoim Guedes,Michael Purugganan","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2514614122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514614122","url":null,"abstract":"Rice (Oryza sativa) was first domesticated beginning ~9,000 y ago in China as the japonica variety group/subspecies. Using genomic data from 456 japonica landraces, including data for 47 herbarium specimens collected over the last 167 y, we reconstruct how japonica rice moved from its center of origin to other parts of Asia beginning ~4,000 to 5,500 y ago. We observe an enrichment of pathogen resistance loci in selective sweeps associated with distinct geographic populations, suggesting that biotic interactions may be a key driver of local adaptation. We also find that the majority of 76 known functional mutations present in our japonica landraces-many of them associated with japonica rice domestication and diversification and important for modern breeding-had their origins in the Pleistocene >11,700 y ago and increased in allele frequency during key events in the evolution of rice.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"129 1","pages":"e2514614122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do color similarity judgments vary with age, and do they reveal anything about qualia?","authors":"Jenny M Bosten,Anna Franklin","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2521506122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2521506122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"41 1","pages":"e2521506122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy E Hofmann,P Douglas Archer,Amy C McAdam,Brad Sutter,Thomas F Bristow,John M Eiler,Christopher R Webster,Gregory J Flesch,Abigail A Fraeman,Heather B Franz,Christopher H House,Elizabeth B Rampe,Jennifer C Stern,Paul R Mahaffy,Charles A Malespin,John P Grotzinger,Ashwin R Vasavada
{"title":"Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars, was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation.","authors":"Amy E Hofmann,P Douglas Archer,Amy C McAdam,Brad Sutter,Thomas F Bristow,John M Eiler,Christopher R Webster,Gregory J Flesch,Abigail A Fraeman,Heather B Franz,Christopher H House,Elizabeth B Rampe,Jennifer C Stern,Paul R Mahaffy,Charles A Malespin,John P Grotzinger,Ashwin R Vasavada","doi":"10.1073/pnas.2511627122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2511627122","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous measurements of HDO, H218O, and H216O in water evolved during pyrolysis of powdered rock samples acquired by the Curiosity rover within Gale crater's clay-bearing units indicate extreme and variable heavy-isotope enrichments averaging ~4.5 times the D/H ratio and ~1.03 times the 18O/16O ratio of terrestrial seawater. These enrichments are recorded in water desorbed from mineral surfaces and evolved from poorly crystalline phases, hydrated salts, jarosite, and clays. All evolved waters are deuterium-enriched relative to common terrestrial waters, reflecting hydrogen loss to space. Because oxygen in structurally bound hydroxyl groups is least likely to exchange with other sources over geologic timescales, we focus on oxygen in water evolved during dehydroxylation of smectite clays. Several samples have 18O/16O ratios commensurate with precipitation from, or near-complete equilibration with, water moderately 18O-enriched relative to terrestrial meteoric waters-consistent with other evidence that Mars's hydrosphere is basically like Earth's in terms of oxygen isotopes. Unlike hydrogen, oxygen atmospheric escape did not lead to extreme 18O enrichments on Mars. Locally, however, most Gale smectites' 18O/16O values require a pronounced 18O-enrichment of their parental waters. On Earth, the most extreme 18O enrichments in surface waters are found in closed basins having undergone significant evaporative loss into a low-humidity atmosphere, and the 18O/16O of authigenic clay minerals formed in these environs reflect those enrichments. A similar process acting on the hydrologic reservoir local to Gale at the time of clay formation and early diagenesis is a plausible explanation for the distinctive oxygen isotopic compositions of these clays.","PeriodicalId":20548,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America","volume":"3 1","pages":"e2511627122"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}