Pogačar vs Vingegaard – A physiological head-to-head

From bodyweight and raw power to dealing with the heat, we take an in-depth look at the factors that could separate the two titans of men's cycling at the Tour de France ...

A brief history of human pain

Pain is one of the few things all of us experience, from stubbing a toe to waking up with an aching back; we can all relate to the feeling of being in pain. Although pain is a uni ...

How heat stress triggers emergency programs in plants

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found how plant cells respond to stress. If their energy ...

This tiny organism contracts 200 times faster than we can blink—here's how

A tiny, aquatic, single-celled organism can contract to one-quarter of its body length in less than 5 milliseconds—hundreds ...