Over the past few years, there has been a subtle but significant shift in the way that data is structured in databases. Whereas yesterday’s databases were typically limited to storing data in rows and ...

Ecologists are fascinated by the prevalence of nestedness in biogeographic and community data, where it is thought to promote biodiversity in mutualistic systems. Traditionally, nestedness has been ...

Layered nanocage functions as a stable miniature reactor capable of producing gold nanoparticles. (Nanowerk News) Nested structures—where one architecture is enclosed within another—are common in ...

At a mere five months of age, babies seemingly have the ability to recognize very complex grammatical structures. That is what a research team has now shown. Human language follows certain ...

Human language follows certain regularities. For instance, a plural noun must be accompanied by a plural verb, as in the following sentence: "The kids from the neighborhood are playing." As a result, ...