You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding ... It may seem to go away when lying down, but you see it clearly when you cough, stand, or strain.

“Previous studies have shown that there’s something in the chemical composition of Solnhofen fossils that makes the soft tissues fluoresce, or glow under UV light,” said O’Connor. “So, our amazing ...

A curious question sparked a cosmic deep dive into why light never tires—even after 25 million years on the move.

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death. This is the conclusion of a team of ...

Experts say a "concerning" number of fireflies are threatened with extinction. Above, fireflies light up the sky in upstate New York. Raphaël De Cock was 9 years old the day he caught his first ...

Although many people are self-proclaimed light sleepers or heavy sleepers ... Breathing further slows, muscles relax, and tissue growth and repair occur. Next is REM sleep.

This paper reclaims the term “mechanotherapy” and presents the current scientific knowledge underpinning how load may be used therapeutically to stimulate tissue repair and remodelling ... to the ...

Are the days of paying by cash for a latte or a newspaper nearly gone? Alice and Neil discuss Neil's fondness for loose change... Tea comes in different forms – milky, sweet or spicy. Alice and ...

An imperceptible glow emanates from living beings, disappearing upon their death. This discovery, published in The Journal of ...