Sodium chloride dissolved into water absorbs energy in the form of heat from the environment—an endothermic reaction, he added. “The resulting solution—salt brine—has a lower freezing ...

Zebras, a children’s tale goes, became striped after “standing half in the shade and half out of it.” While the author, Rudyard Kipling, wasn’t a biologist, his story may hold some truth ...

This important study investigates the sensitivity to endogenous cosolvents of three families of intrinsically disordered proteins involved with desiccation. The findings, drawn from well-designed ...