Your nervous system may be sabotaging your sleep with an ancient survival reflex that mistakes relaxation for danger.

Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer ...

In 2015, data centres drew 1,238 gigawatt hours from Ireland's metered electricity network, or 5 percent of all metered ...

Barry Marshall’s self-experiment showed that a stomach bacterium could cause gastritis in a healthy person. The evidence linking that bacterium to ulcers came later, through studies of what happened ...

Photo: Ken Chuang / Pexels. Image for illustrative purposes only. Two pieces of technology, pointed at each other. One is a ...

Decades of recycling scrap tires into highway pavement delivered measurable quiet—but the true story behind Arizona's experiment is stranger than the viral claims suggest.

California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after Hurricane Marie's swells left ten Dana Point beachfront homes red-tagged as ...

Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial brine oxidizes at Antarctica's surface.

A teenager's recycler turns plastic waste into 3D printer fuel with surprising efficiency—and just changed what's possible in a garage.

A viral scientific breakthrough promised to solve wind energy's waste problem—but the gummy bears were never the real goal, and the hype outpaced what the lab could actually deliver.

Island fox. Credit: USFWS Pacific Southwest Region (public domain). Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a ...