Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

Allowing your mind to wander while engaged in a simple task may actually help improve learning, according to the findings of ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory, led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of ...

Researchers in Canada surveyed 1,082 university students about their eating habits, sleep patterns and dreams.  Remarkably, 40% reported that certain foods affected their sleep. Of that group, 20% ...

Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ...

Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a widespread phenomenon in areas with dense human populations. Normally, animals use natural external cues, like sunlight and temperature, to ...

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

A recent breakthrough by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, offers a fresh and promising path toward ...

A surprising new study suggests that the key to better sleep might not be in your bedroom — but in your grocery basket. Researchers found that a simple dietary change, like increasing daily fruit and ...

The immune system is the body's protector. Following the detection of a potential threat, such as a bacterial or viral infection, a healthy immune system will attack the foreign invader. What many ...

The drug appeared to shift microglia—the brain’s immune cells—away from a reactive, potentially damaging state and toward a more homeostatic role. “We initially hypothesized that enhancing non-rapid ...