Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In my last post, Trauma's Negative Impact on Working Memory, I delved into variations in memory processing that are prevalent with trauma. This post builds on the concept by considering trauma and ...

Researchers uncovered that hypothalamic neurons safeguard blood sugar overnight by directing fat breakdown, preventing hypoglycemia during early sleep. This subtle control system may explain abnormal ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and the rest of the nervous system are ...

A new wellness ritual is going viral. But at what cost to health and life? Originally practiced by Indigenous tribes of the Amazon, the Kambo ritual involves applying the toxic secretion of the giant ...

Getting out of bed during the night to urinate is a complaint that almost all men experience at some point in their lives, especially as they age. Most men think of it just as a factor of ageing, but ...

University of Minnesota researchers developed a 3D-printed scaffold that directs stem cells to grow into functioning nerve cells, successfully restoring movement in rats with severed spinal cords.

How Does Exercise Affect White Blood Cell Count? Exercise typically causes white blood cells to circulate more quickly. In theory, this means that your body may be able to identify infections more ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 25, 2025) What the Republican-led Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives calls legislation to “Cut Red Tape and Increase Clean ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 4, 2025) A review of agricultural neonicotinoid insecticide regulations, published in Pest Management Science, evaluates the varied approaches being taken for bans and ...