Fred gently guides you through a calming ASMR experience designed to “cool down” your mind, helping you relax deeply and drift into a restful sleep. Starmer urged to resign as Labour loses hundreds of ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers discovered that fluid flows along the middle meningeal artery in a slow, ...

An ageing population is often accompanied by an increase in age‑related disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that impairs body movement and which is mainly ...

One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up a new treatment option. A drug that ordinarily treats high blood ...

It's hard not to take other people's yawns personally, especially when you're in the middle of telling them a story. Longstanding beliefs, and evidence, suggests that drowsiness, which often follows ...

In the 2021 Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, elite mountaineer Nirmal Purja races up the world’s highest summits at extraordinary speed. But even he isn’t immune to altitude.

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to ...

Starfish, also known as sea stars, are equipped with an almost alien-like anatomy. Despite lacking a brain, blood, and central nervous system, these odd creatures still have locomotive abilities. The ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

Your brain is very good at time travel. At any given moment, it might be replaying what already happened or rehearsing what could go wrong next. How do you snap back fast to reality? Try “active ...