Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Synaptic plasticity allows brains to learn, adapt, and rewire. It’s foundational to memory, problem-solving, and complex ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Scientists based in Israel studying jellyfish and sea anemones have found evidence of them being in sleep-like states.

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the brain in humans, and now ...

With increased DNA damage from UV radiation or other reasons, the researchers also observed the jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.