From counting sheep to white noise and weighted blankets, people have tried innumerable ways to get a good night’s sleep.

Your breath is one of a kind. A study published June 12 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology demonstrated that ...

A rich and varied mix of microbes in the mouth, particularly bacteria, is not only important for our oral health, but may ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

Imagine trying to solve a complex problem without access to the instruction manual — or worse, being told the manual was too expensive to keep on hand. That’s exactly what the federal gove ...

Imagine trying to solve a complex problem without access to the instruction manual — or worse, being told the manual was too expensive to keep on hand. That’s exactly ...

Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest laye ...

What happens when AI becomes conscious? Philosopher Peter Singer explores the ethical dilemma that could follow the creation of sentient machines. If AI can feel pain or experience ple ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the ...

For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first documented royal house, who reigned ...

Congress is now considering significant cuts to federal research funding. These decisions, if approved, won’t just stall ...

Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its ...