
Can What You Eat Affect Your Mood?
Increasingly, nutritional psychiatry says yes

Can What You Eat Affect Your Mood?
Increasingly, nutritional psychiatry says yes

A Sense of Discovery: How the Immune System Works with the Brain


New Research about Eating, Sleeping, Eliminating and Snuggling
Recent research looks at basic bodily functions

Ba-Boom! There Goes Your Hearing
New discoveries offer hope for noise-induced hearing loss

Mouth Sets Healing Standard
Certain proteins that coordinate the healing response are present at higher levels in oral tissue—meaning wounds in the mouth fix faster. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Should You Exercise in the Morning, Afternoon or Evening?
The optimal time to exercise is when your body temperature is at its highest

Does Sugar Really Suppress the Immune System?
Eating sugar may put your white blood cells into a temporary coma. But there’s a lot more to the story of how sugar affects our immune response

Smart Mouth Guard Senses Muscle Fatigue
A prototype flexible electronic mouth guard can measure lactate levels in an athlete’s saliva, tracking muscle fatigue during training and performance.

What Is Green Exercise?
Being outdoors can lower our levels of stress, our pulse rate, and even our blood pressure. But what happens when we exercise in a green space?

The Human Eye Could Help Test Quantum Mechanics
Experiments to confirm we can see single photons offer new ways to probe our understanding of quantum reality

Does Sparkling Water Make You Hungry?
Carbonated drinks may increase the "hunger hormone" ghrelin, but these hormones are only one of many factors that contribute to our subjective experience of being hungry

Use of “Smart Drugs” on the Rise
European nations see biggest increases in use of stimulants such as Ritalin by people seeking brain-boosting effects