Tropical cyclones pose a growing threat to coastal infrastructure and livelihood. Because instrumental and historic records are too short to help us understand interactions between tropical cyclones ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

Increasing the density of grain boundaries can enhance the room-temperature strength of polycrystalline alloys. However, at high temperatures, the diffusion of grain boundaries decreases their ...