A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, usually under fifty residues, that the body uses as a signaling molecule. Most ...
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.” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feral pigs (Sus scrofa). Photo: Bernard Dupont, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1912, a small group of 13 or 14 wild hogs, bought through an agent in Berlin, began a journey that would end on ...
Justin Brown writes for Science Blog on science and institutions, how discoveries become public stories, and the human consequences of scientific systems. He holds a Master of Science in Economic ...