Take a fish out of water and its stress hormones will go up. Adrenaline and noradrenaline, the ‘fight or flight’ hormones, peak first, followed more gradually by cortisol. A new study finds that largemouth bass whose cortisol levels rise most after a brief bout of stress are inherently harder to […]
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Results from its first run indicate that XENON1T is the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth. The sensitivity of the detector — an underground sentinel awaiting a collision that would confirm a hypothesis – stems from both its size and its ‘silence.’
Researchers have created a system called ‘Interactive Robogami’ that lets you design a robot in minutes, and then 3-D-print and assemble it in as little as four hours.
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
Diagnosing the state of President Donald Trump’s political health should be a simple matter. The story that the traditional metrics tell is straightforward. On a good day for him, Trump’s approval rating might crack 40 percent. But a more typical day lately will put him in the mid- to high-30s, […]
By capturing the crystal structure of RNA polymerase during a nontraditional form of transcription — reiterative transcription — researchers have identified a new pathway used by RNA to exit an enzyme.
Female teenagers living in neighborhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation that could indicate a higher risk of developing mental illness in adulthood.
Researchers have studied satellite photographs of Lake Catalina, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland — and were truly amazed: Unnoticed by science as well as people living in the area, the lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years — each representing an […]