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.” ...

California moved 338 beavers between 1923 and 1945 for fur and water storage. In October 2023 it made its first beaver ...

Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller ...

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 ...

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, a public high school on Chicago's South Side. Photo: Klio0701, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 2009, researchers in Chicago set out to test a weekly school ...

Low tide on the Tidal Thames at Bugsby's Reach, Greenwich. Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Tidal Thames was declared biologically dead in 1957 with zero fish species, and over 115 species ...

You have never seen the Sun. Not the real one, not the one that exists at the moment you look up. What reaches your eye is a version of the Sun that is already gone ...

Does it pay to switch to regenerative farming? For a corn grower who sells at the elevator, the best evidence gives two different answers. The elevator is the local depot that buys grain by the ...

Texas multi-paddock ranches held 3.61 per cent soil organic matter, 2.4 under heavy continuous grazing. A 2026 review's best studies found no carbon gain.

The specific number, on the current best interpretation of five decades of lunar laser ranging data, is 3.83 centimetres per year, with a formal uncertainty of approximately 0.09 millimetres. It has ...

Cut open a supergiant isopod hauled up from nearly a kilometre down, and the first thing you notice is the stomach. It fills roughly two-thirds of the body cavity, packed tight with a finely ground, ...