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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Palmer Luckey was asked on a podcast what he’d work on if he was starting from zero today, and his answer was divorce. Specifically, he said he’d try to end “the tragedy of divorce” with “oxytocin ...