It’s easy to look at a sleeping dog’s leg twitching and imagine that it’s having a wonderful rabbit-chasing dream. But can ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

She was alone in the absolutely quiet house: she was used to this and it mostly felt like freedom, after the long years of ...

The traditional owners of K’gari are furious the dingoes that surrounded and bit Piper James’ body will be culled after they ...

As Hobson described, dreams were “meaningless electrical discharge” (1977). This view is echoed in a lot of colloquial ...

Whether you call him groundhog, woodchuck, whistle-pig or use the full genus and species name, Marmota monax, the nation’s ...

Research on joy—those bursts of “woo-hoo moments”—is an exciting area of study across species. But the feeling of too much ...