Yawning coupled with penile erection is a conserved neurobehavioral syndrome mediated by the paraventricular hypothalamus (PVH). However, the distinct roles of oxytocin and its co-transmitters remain unresolved. Using chemogenetics, we showed that activation of PVH oxytocin neurons was sufficient to elicit both responses, whereas silencing these neurons abolished them. Viral tracing revealed that these neurons project collater...

Subseasonal predictions from 2 weeks to 2 months have made significant advancements over the past decade, driven by progress in physical understanding, climate modeling, computational capabilities, and artificial intelligence (AI). These predictions are increasingly in demand due to their potential to provide stakeholders with adequate lead time for effective disaster adaptation, mitigation, and resource management. However, t...

The mud area off the northern Shandong Peninsula is a critical region for sediment and organic carbon (OC) burial in the Yellow Sea. Based on a sediment borehole with 210 Pb-derived sedimentation rate of 0.63 cm/a, multiple proxy parameters including grain size, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C), and nitrogen isotope (δ 15 N) were analyzed to reconstruct centennial-scale OC sources...