A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, usually under fifty residues, that the body uses as a signaling molecule. Most ...

A paper day planner beside a smartphone. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels, used as a representative image. A message flashes in the corner of a screen. Answering it takes perhaps 20 seconds. Yet a ...

I was one of the people that number eventually included, at a project camp in the province of Toledo. Not as a statistic exactly — more as a person standing in a line, waiting to be told where to go ...

Donald Unger’s one-man experiment answered a family warning. Larger studies have since tested it properly, and the answer they found is more careful than “cracking is harmless.” ...

If California’s Latino population were its own economy, it would rank among the world’s largest. A new report from UCLA and California Lutheran University reveals that California Latinos generated ...

This is one of the most widely repeated claims on the internet, and it welds together two things of very different quality. One is the chemistry of why honey resists spoilage, which is real, ...

A honey bee’s stinger left behind in skin after a sting. The detached apparatus can keep working on its own for a short time. Photo: Waugsberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A honey bee stinger ...

Representative image of software development work. Photo by Christina Morillo on Pexels. The cleanest result in the METR trial is also the one most likely to be misread. In a randomized controlled ...

In late December 2025, Waymo’s fleet of driverless robotaxis quietly passed a specific milestone that no autonomous vehicle company had ever reached. The Alphabet subsidiary’s cars completed their 20 ...

Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller generator that turned the movement of water in the Boca Raton Intracoastal ...

Set the two buildings next to each other and the mismatch is almost comic. The Empire State Building is far taller, a slim steel spire that went up in just over a year. The Great Pyramid is shorter, ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The basement feels wrong before you can say ...