Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the gut's rhythmic muscle movements could help ...

The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to heart rate and pulse.

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

Everything’s a little off when you haven’t had any sleep: you can’t remember where you put your cell phone, your eyes burn, ...

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.

"Once damaged, these hairs never grow back. You have around 3,500, and that is all you'll have throughout your entire life...

The course teaches students about how alcohol is shown in popular media and how it affects viewers understanding and use of it, along with the biological effects of alcohol consumption.

It could have serious implications. Scientists stunned after discovering 'glassy blobs' inside human brains: 'This is the ...

Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

While brain clocks can be used to measure brain health (accelerated or delayed brain ageing), the biophysical models can ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...