Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising ...

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

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

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

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

Encapsulated microbubbles (EMBs), tiny gas-filled bubbles coated in lipid or protein shells, play a central role in ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in tropical waters is known to be able to reverse its own life cycle, cheating death. The jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, was first discovered in 1883, but it was ...

Warming oceans could usher in a whole new poison pill of dangerous creatures, from sea snakes to jellies and lionfish. She and her coauthors scoured medical, environmental and ecological research on ...

Galileo Galilei was the Proprietary Chaffbot Company of his time. He helped establish modern science by emphasizing ...

Amanda MacMillan is a health and science writer and editor. Her work appears across brands like Health, Prevention, SELF, O Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Time Out New York, and National Geographic's The ...