Animals can sleep on the wing, standing up, sitting in a tree or diving in the ocean. Many don't close their eyes, and some don't even have eyelids. Here are some of the strangest ways to snooze.

Global action is urgently needed to tackle microplastic – and the problem has never been more pressing.

Some of our favorite food crops around the world aren't reaching their full potential because of fewer visits from the insects that pollinate them, a new study has found.

Weeks after revelation that megalith came from Scotland, researchers make surprise discovery

an experimental cancer drug appeared to re-energize the brains of mice that had a form of Alzheimer’s — and even restore their ability to learn and remember.

r/AngryUpvote is a part of Reddit that’s dedicated to bad jokes. Bad jokes or dad jokes? It's father's day in Australia

There was a long period where journalists writing about failing media ventures loved to imply that these collapses meant online journalism was no longer profitable. In reality, the industry had sim…

For decades it seemed as if nothing could change the trajectory of population growth. But a huge change is looming.

The guitarist has spent a decade studying the science of bovine tuberculosis and identified a new method of spread.

Cesare Mencarini’s recent extended project qualification (EPQ) earned him an “A” for his studies in the United Kingdom—and became, it is believed, the first nuclear reactor built in a school environment.

Disney tried to argue that the wrongful death suit should be dismissed because Piccolo subscribed to a one-month free trial of Disney+ four years before Tangsuan's shocking death and the Disney+ agreement that required private arbitration for &q ...

In the third volume of this superb trilogy exploring the lives of women taken captive in the Trojan War, a new narrator takes us on a journey back to Agamemnon’s palace.

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations

A newly identified smartphone vulnerability can reveal the floor plans of where you are and what you are doing - and it is possible that companies or intelligence agencies are already making use of it

I can’t believe this, but it happened again. Almost exactly a decade ago, Tim Cushing wrote about a bonkers story out of the UK in which a passport applicant who’s middle name was ̶…

how various circuits throughout the brain align their firing is an enduring mystery, one some theorists suggest might have a solution that involves quantum entanglement.

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.

Mozilla generated 86% of its revenue from Google search engine payments.

It seems similar bias is likely in other fields of health treatment and science.