A recent study used MRI to find an association between sleep loss and diminished antioxidant capacity in teens.

A scientist is using food waste to turn ultraviolet radiation into electricity with his AuREUS solar panels, making clean energy more accessible and giving farms a way to mitigate losses — while also ...

So, they sent some sporophytes to the ISS. Astronauts affixed the samples to the station's exterior, where they remained for ...

Moss spores have just joined the short list of life forms proven to withstand the raw vacuum of space for months at a time, ...

Moss is known as a plant that can thrive in extreme environments on Earth, such as the Himalayas, deserts, Antarctic tundra, ...

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

In the study, researchers evaluated county-level data across Pennsylvania for variables such as melanoma incidence, agricultural land use, agrochemical-treated acreage, ambient ultraviolet radiation, ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA ...

A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of ...

The moss species Physcomitrium patens is the latest organism to survive an extended stay in the vacuum and radiation of space.