The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. Haldane’s rule suggests that in ...

Tea plant has a highly complex and heterozygous genome, and can produce abundant beneficial metabolites. Here, the authors report the haplotype-resolved genome of cultivar Fuding Dabaicha and reveal ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, navigators exploring the Pacific and Indian oceans discovered that the languages spoken on many islands, spanning from Madagascar in the west to Polynesia in the east, ...

IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2020. Contributed by Mark Stoneking, November 12, 2020 (sent for review ...