Peptides are the essential building blocks of proteins like collagen, elastin, and keratin. Scientists had previously been ...

'Star Trek: The Original Series' has a deceptively dangerous episode involving tiny, fuzzy aliens. 'Starfleet Academy' is ...

Suki Chan and co-editor Michael Ellis of 'Superman' fame discuss her debut feature, their collaboration, artistic ...

I’d be chugging seawater before I got my first sunburn. Even a snakes-on-a-plane scenario might have me voluntarily opening the emergency exit mid-flight to see myself out. In other dystopian books, ...

Mammoth Cave National Park sprawls beneath the rolling Kentucky landscape, containing the longest known cave system anywhere on Earth. Not the longest in Kentucky, not the longest in North America, ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

Thin is in.