Syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being. nambitomo/iStock via Getty Images Plus Anyone who has suffered from jet lag or struggled after ...

Traveling to faraway places is often accompanied by jet lag. Fatigue, difficulty sleeping, and a host of other problems can turn an otherwise exciting adventure into a miserable trip. Researchers have ...

Each of the trillions of cells in our bodies has a tiny internal clock. When all of those clocks are synchronized, they tell us when to wake up, burn calories, and go to sleep. But when they lose ...

In life, timing is everything. However, reading one’s internal clock precisely enough remains a major challenge in sleep and circadian health. The current approach requires taking hourly samples of ...

On a recent trip to Tucson, I heard zero complaints about a pending hour of lost sleep. On March 10, 2024—when most clocks across the country will advance one hour for daylight saving time—no one in ...

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Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm." Your ...

In casual conversation, the “biological clock” is often referred to when starting a family but officially, our biological clocks, or our circadian rhythms, are how our bodies know when to go to sleep ...

Ah, daylight-saving time, that point in the year when — because of what almost seems like a joke by Ben Franklin — we shift our clocks forward an hour. Not all states or countries observe the time ...

Rosemary Braun receives funding from NIH, NSF, DARPA, the Simons Foundation, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. However, reading one’s internal clock precisely enough remains a major challenge in ...