I have learned quite a bit about cranberries this year, and I wanted to share my research. In August, I visited a cranberry bog near Eagle River, Wisconsin, not far from the Michigan border, while on a trip with my mother and sister to get a spinning wheel I found on Facebook Marketplace. ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal "even though it's actually very risky," said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon ...

Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It's the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day of the year and ...

BENGALURU, India — Across India, battery recycling faces a mixture of challenges and opportunity as it plays an important role in the country's shift to clean power. A fledgling system has taken off in the past decade for recovering materials from the batteries used in electric vehicles, ...

By IRIS DOHRENWEND 8-18 Media I got the wonderful opportunity this summer to interview NASA astronauts Dr. Anna Fisher and Suni Williams. Have you ever wondered what rules astronauts have to follow in space? Here are some funny things that astronauts can’t bring into space: A big ...

MORRO BAY, Calif. — On a jagged coastline in central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the big-billed birds plunge beneath the surface in ...