Healthy sleep is a basic physiologic need. In its absence, a myriad of processes in the body can go terribly…
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Labeling the credibility of information sources does not shift the consumption of news away from low-quality…
CLIMATEWIRE | Right now, 12 wildfires are burning through nearly 280,000 acres in five states. Many more will burn in…
MECHANICAL MYSTERY “Wonder of the Ancient World,” by Tony Freeth, describes the Antikythera mechanism, a Greek astronomical calculation machine. As…
During spring in the Pacific Northwest, meltwater from thawing snow rushes down rivers and the wind often blows hard. These…
ARGENTINA As ice fields in the Patagonian Andes shrink, the tectonic plates underneath them are simultaneously pushing upward. Researchers found…
The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, became considerably better when hybrid buses were replaced…
Picking the best Fitbit used to be easy because the options were limited, but the company now offers a diverse…
The Roman bust after it was bought by Laura Young. It was sold at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas for…
CLIMATEWIRE | As an intern for Dow Chemical in high school and college, Jalonne White-Newsome thought she’d found her life…
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they’ve lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally…
Tanya Lewis: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Tanya Lewis. On Monday a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked,…
Fitbit Inspire 2 is a health tracker that’s ideal for those looking to start understanding their body’s natural rhythm and…
Fitbit Luxe takes the “classic” Fitbit shape, adds a little pizazz to it in the form of an array of…
Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like…
Carter Newell owns and operates one of the most productive mussel farms in the state of Maine. One frigid spring…
Declining ocean memory between the present and the end of the 21st century–blue indicates decline, red indicates increase in memory.…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health found that employee and…
What lurks at the Milky Way’s heart? Astronomers have known most of the answer for decades. Just as in most…
Long before Neolithic people erected Stonehenge’s majestic bluestones and sarsen stones, Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers frequented the site,…
Water levels have plummeted at Lake Mead due to the American West’s historic drought, exposing corroded barrels. Firefighters struggled Friday…
Tiny crystals unearthed in South Africa contain evidence of a sudden transition on the planet’s surface 3.8 billion years ago.These…
The April 4, 2022 report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes it clear that it is “now…
New findings show a troubling lack of diversity—in participants and geography—in a fast-growing scientific field exploring nature’s effects on mental…
You’ve set a goal to hit the gym five days a week. But on day five, you wake up feeling…
For a new paper in the journal Science, Earth system scientists at UCI and other institutions tracked the greenhouse gas…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Five years ago, the United Nations’ panel on climate change was charged with drafting a series…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After two of the most active hurricane seasons on record in 2020 and 2021, top hurricane…
Recent progress in nanotechnology paves the way for improved drug delivery, clinical diagnosis, and even environmental protection against toxic pollutants.…
Six newly-described species of miniature frogs from Mexico and Guatemala are so tiny that each can fit comfortably on a…