Science

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.

Air-conditioning and swimming pools are sustaining my community. I worry about the day when they won’t be enough.

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.

Analysing data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites, the researchers identified a phenomenon known as a ‘chorus wave’ – bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel along Earth’s magnetic field lines. That’s because this ‘chirping’ is

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Gia Mezz, 28, who is based in Los Angeles. Mezz taught herself graphic design and started fashion brand LEAU as a side hustle. Now a full-fledged business, LEAU boasts nearly $10 million in lifetime sales. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

Mutations that happen throughout a person’s life may contribute to disease more than doctors have realized. In the summer of 2018, 59-year-old David Gould went for his annual checkup, expecting to hear the usual: Everything looks fine. Instead, he was told that he was newly—and oddly—anemic.

Researchers once thought of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as an unchanging condition: either you have it or you don’t, end of story.

In July 1925, a 23-year-old German physicist submitted a paper1 to the journal Zeitschrift für Physik entitled ‘On quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematic and mechanical relationships’.

“Sleep is a non-negotiable biological state required for the maintenance of human life.…our need for sleep parallels those for air, food, and water.