California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The International Space Station is falling. Right now, as you read this, the massive laboratory is losing altitude every day, sinking through the thin residual atmosphere at the top of Earth’s sky ...

A Pennsylvania farm landscape near Hughesville. This representative photograph does not show Mervin Raudabaugh's two Cumberland County properties. Photo by Phil Evenden via Pexels. An 86-year-old ...

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.

Namibia is one of the driest countries in Africa, and its capital sits far from any river that runs all year. According to Veolia, one of the companies that helps run the plant, the region gets around ...

Stand against a doorframe first thing in the morning, mark the top of your head, then measure again before bed. You will probably be a little shorter at night. Not by enough to notice in the mirror, ...

Bathymetric data showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin. Credit: NOAA National Ocean Service. The longest mountain range on Earth is not the Andes, the Rockies or the ...