Month: January 2015

Approximately 71 percent of American adults drink alcohol. While alcohol interacts negatively with a number…

Sleep difficulties and insufficient sleep are common among American youth. New research has found that…

Alcohol use typically begins during adolescence, in social settings, and is influenced by peer drinking….

For individuals who drink before sleeping, alcohol initially acts as a sedative — marked by…

In the midst of the California rainy season, scientists are embarking on a field campaign…

The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by…

Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our…

A new NASA satellite that will peer into the topmost layer of Earth’s soils to…

A NASA study using two years of observations from a novel mountaintop instrument finds that…

An asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, will safely pass about three times the distance of Earth…