Stories by Morgen E. Peck

One New York City neighborhood’s efforts to pool local renewable energy sources reflects a larger push toward decentralized power production and consumption

“Tiger” parents may drive kids’ brains to overreact to errors

As hundreds of “altcoin” knockoffs are minted online, bitcoins no longer dominate as the principal form of digital currency

A product developer aims to develop a 3-D printer that would help to push the price to consumers down to about $1,000 in the near future

The brain gets more active the longer it goes without sleep

Emotions in music mimic the way we emote in speech

To tune their speech, toddlers may rely on different feedback than adults

Eyeblinks reveal what autistic toddlers pay attention to

Meat eaters selectively deny mental abilities in the animals they consume

Scientists pinpoint a key to sleepiness in fruit flies