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Chronobiology shows that while our industrialised lives flatten the calendar, our cells adapt and align our habits with light ...

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Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a ...

A recent study has uncovered an extraordinary survival story—night lizards, small reptiles that still inhabit parts of North ...

Circadian cycling of biological processes is widely conserved across phylogeny. Gerstner and Yin discuss how regulators of circadian rhythms — including clock genes, melatonin and the ...

Scary dreams disrupt our sleep and elevate our levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which may have serious consequences for ...

We all like to imagine we're aging well. Now a simple blood or saliva test promises to tell us by measuring our "biological ...

Researchers, drawing upon data from major aging studies, are now developing a digital app to help patients and their doctors ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.