As a follow-on to After the Train – a superb essay collection published earlier this year celebrating the social transformation brought about by Irishwomen United, the activist collective founded in ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong Yasemin ...

A neuroscientist has revealed why you might be waking up in the middle of the night and how to prevent it. Having difficulty sleeping is not uncommon - in fact the NHS says one in three of us will it ...

Experts advise it, even if surveys show that millions of people fall well short of the target. But, for those who do struggle to sleep, they might find solace, and some hope, in the knowledge that our ...

You roll out of bed, rub your eyes, and there it is again, that familiar dull or throbbing ache behind your temples. A morning headache may seem harmless, but for many it is a recurring ritual that ...

Experts weigh in on what the urge means, and what you can do to curb it. Ask Well Experts weigh in on what the urge means, and what you can do to curb it. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times ...

The pillow is cold against your cheek. Your upstairs neighbor creaks across the ceiling. You close your eyes; shadows and light dance across your vision. A cat sniffs at a piece of cheese. Dots fall ...

Is late-night tossing and turning stealing your shut-eye? You’re not alone. Nearly one in five US adults struggle to stay asleep until sunrise — turning the dream of 8 hours of uninterrupted rest into ...

The intensity of the Sun’s activity ebbs and flows across years, but also across decades—a behavior that scientists haven’t quite figured out yet. At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists ...

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers had predicted that our host star was entering a period of relative quiet ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once again on the increase. The sun has grown increasingly active over the past ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...