Sound machines promise better sleep, but new research suggests they may quietly steal your REM and deep sleep.

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Certain anti-inflammatory supplements may help reduce pain and inflammation caused by conditions like arthritis.

Lichens survive in a very wide range of habitats worldwide. Amazingly, more than 400 species can be found in Maryland.

When temperatures plunge and the air goes painfully still, people in northern forests sometimes hear a sharp crack that ...

It sounded like pistol shots as the area’s citrus trees split open when sap inside them froze. The cash crop was destroyed, ...

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If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

The phenomenon of "exploding trees" is actually caused by frost cracking, which occurs when the sap wood behind the tree's bark freezes and causes the bark to expand open vertically through the tree.