New research now shows how dreams during REM sleep help the brain rethink problems and find creative solutions naturally.

Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research." ...

Dreams and REM sleep have long been associated with creativity. Why is that? Sleep is about a lot more than just restoration.

A widow living under the shadow of a giant 108ft tree says she fears its branches will crush her to death in her sleep every time it gets windy. Dot Smith is "beside herself with worry" and even ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm demonstrate the fastest way to mulch 600 trees on the property. Welcome to Greenland, an economy reliant on subsidies and shrimp Hawley changes stance on war ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Tree farmers and the marketing group that supports them want more Americans to buy live-cut trees. A new Home Depot ad gave them holiday hope. By Kevin Draper Milk had “Got Milk?” Beef had “Beef: It’s ...

We've all been there. You're sharing something important, like a frustration, an idea, or a vulnerability, and the person across from you is doing "all the right things." They're nodding. They're ...

How do you like your Christmas lights? We all have our preferences, and we’re spoiled for choice, making it easy to decorate our trees exactly the way we want. You can pick white lights, multi-color ...