Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the “spring forward” to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.

New research suggests it was climate-related drought that built the foundation for the collapse of the Assyrian Empire (whose heartland was based in today’s northern Iraq)—one of the most powerful civilizations in the ancient world.

Mold in space: NASA grant to study space station fungus

Sleeping too much, or too little, boosts heart attack risk, according to a new study of nearly a half-million people, which found those who slept fewer than six hours were 20% more likely to have a heart attack, and those who slept more than nine hours were 34% more likely.

Neuroscientists have developed a brain-inspired computer system that can look at an image and determine what emotion it evokes in people

A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past

Turning water into ice in the quantum realm

Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction

Symbolic Deadlock Analysis in Concurrent Libraries and their Clients (2009)

When more women involved in decisions of land management, the group conserves more, particularly when offered financial incentives to do so