Zaria Gorvett

Durante mucho tiempo, las personas usaron grandes armarios para dormir. ¿Por qué se perdió esta costumbre?

Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for?

Pilot fatigue is in the spotlight this week, with the news that one Indonesian flight had two sleeping pilots at its helm. But the military have a surprising solution.

To celebrate World Sleep Day, here na our science-based guide to get correct deep sleep.

As the clocks go forward in the UK this weekend, Zaria Gorvett investigates the strange Roman alternative to daylight saving time – and why an hour sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.

In the 400 years since New York City’s birth, the local wildlife has adapted to a life of fast food, pollution and isolation.

Feral pigeons were made by humans. Now we detest them. How did things go so wrong?

In the plunge for distance, any form of exertion was strictly forbidden.

À medida que os conflitos em Gaza e na Ucrânia continuam, aumenta a preocupação sobre o trauma que pode estar por vir.

Guam has 40 times more spiders than neighbouring islands – and a population of invasive snakes so voracious, they have emptied the forests of every bird.