Feeling out of sorts in our current times? We have been here before, perhaps never left, and there is a path forward.

With growing evidence that loneliness increases the risk for multiple diseases, there are questions about the mechanisms at ...

Everything is connected. Our efforts to move and improve generate multiple cascading responses within our bodies that can ...

The central question of human existence is whether we have free will, impacting moral codes, legal systems, and life's ...

A City on Mars. I briefly mentioned this book before in passing but it's now won the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize ...

“Hypnic jerks represent a fascinating phenomenon of sleep; however, additional studies are needed to clarify their physiology ...

A new study in the Journal of Applied Physiology digs into this mystery ... As with most aging studies, there’s a chicken-and-egg question here: am I slower on hill sprints because my muscle ...

Researchers investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) is genetically programmed so that it can be passed on to subsequent generations. They found an answer in ...

Jonny Kim—a former Navy SEAL and ER doctor—is now a NASA astronaut who will soon launch to the International Space Station as ...

Is it possible? These are questions that we can’t answer definitively, but there are some clues in the scientific literature that are worth bearing in mind as we consider what this new era means.

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and macaques, showing both shared and unique traits.

That’s just a question of the person ... young horse physiology and judging were also discussed through the lens of horse ...