Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

A fun and insightful look into the most frequent dream behaviors in dogs, explaining what experts believe they ...

If we are ever to really understand dreams we are going to have put them in evolutionary context. But dreams are mental phenomena and not a directly observable physical trait. So how can we study the ...

Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the ...

The simulation hypothesis states that we are characters in a computer simulation. Scientists have taken this hypothesis seriously I think because it offers interesting potential explanations for a ...

A study published in eLife found that wakefulness, non-REM, and REM sleep have complementary functions for learning. University of Bern researchers found that introducing new, virtual sensory inputs ...

Scientists have spent years trying to work out if octopuses, whose brains have some remarkable similarities to our own, have dreams. A recent study even purported that the eight-armed cephalopods can ...

If you’ve ever seen a close-up photo of a jumping spider, you’ll know they’re the cute ones. Many fit on the tip of a finger and sport fuzzy, colorful bodies and big eyes. They're quite amazing, said ...

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(CNN) --Spending less time in REM sleep is linked to a greater overall risk of death from any cause as well as from cardiovascular disease and other diseases except for cancer, a new study finds. "The ...