Abstract Future changes in tropical precipitation affect the livelihood of world’s human population and ecosystems. Climate models project an increased rainfall intensification under anthropogenic warming, but uncertainties distribution magnitude remain large. Here, we identify a strong positive relationship between present-day Indo-Pacific warm pool size projected central-to-eastern Pacific us...

The types of cognitive and neural mechanisms available to children for making concepts depend on the problems their brains evolved to solve over the past millions of years. Comparative research on numerical cognition with humans and nonhuman primates has revealed a system for quantity representation that lays the foundation for quantitative development. Nonhuman primates in particular share man...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) changed the way continuous education is perceived. Employees willing to progress their careers can take high quality courses. Students can develop skills outside curriculum. Studies show that most of the MOOC users are pursuing or have received a university degree. Therefore it is beneficial to consider motives and constraints of this class of participants wh...

The order of genes in the genome is commonly thought to have functional significance for gene regulation and fitness but has not heretofore been tested experimentally. We adapted a bacteriophage T7 variant harboring an ectopically positioned RNA polymerase gene to determine whether it could regain the fitness of the wild type. Two replicate lines maintained the starting gene order and showed on...