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.” ...

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 ...

At two in the afternoon, a long black feels like jumper leads clamped to the brain. Eyelids lift, the inbox looks less hostile, and the 3pm meeting starts to seem survivable. Oddly, none of that lift ...

For most of the 20th century, the land along the Illinois River near the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge in Putnam County grew corn and soybeans. The Hennepin Drainage and Levee District had drained the site’s ...

In Qingtian County in southeast Zhejiang, farmers put roughly forty grams of carp fry into a rice paddy about a week after transplanting the seedlings, and they’ve been doing it for at least twelve ...

In a damp field somewhere in Europe, a fungus is swapping grains of rye for small black horns that look like mouse droppings and work like a pharmacy. That is ergot, Claviceps purpurea, and the hard ...

Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. One overview of the field puts the figure at roughly 90%. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator.

Representative group portrait for an article about population height trends. The people pictured were not part of the historical datasets, and the image does not identify their nationality. Photo by ...

A caver dropped into a hole in the limestone of Comal County, Texas, put his face into the underground stream at the bottom, and found the streambed paved with bones. John Young photographed what he ...

In 2014, a team at Wageningen University in the Netherlands reported that a single gene borrowed from a wild tomato relative let modern hybrids tolerate light around the clock, and that plants ...