Researchers from the University of Geneva and the University Medical Center Freiburg in Germany have discovered that daytime napping helps the brain recover ...

Even a short afternoon nap could be enough to refresh the brain and make learning easier, according to new research. A study published on January 22, 2026 by researchers at the Medical Center – ...

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think.

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New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Even a short afternoon nap helps the brain recover and improve its ability to learn, researchers recently reported in the journal NeuroImage. Napping helps reorganize connections between nerve cells ...

A new study reveals that a quick afternoon nap can enhance the brain's ability to learn by reorganizing synaptic connections, ...

A new study reveals that even a short nap can rejuvenate the brain, enhancing its ability to learn and retain new information, similarly to a full night's sleep. Researchers found that a brief nap ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is continually pruning away haphazardly created synaptic connections forged as early learning, unlearning and relearning chaotically ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during ...