A team of UC Merced researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep time, mimicking the daily rhythms ...

One of the more curious phenomena explained by the model is why babies nap on some days but not others, even when their ...

Summary: Researchers uncovered how our biological clocks keep a 24-hour rhythm even as temperatures fluctuate. Using ...

Clock genes are a set of genes known to contribute to the regulation of the human body's internal 24-hour cycle, also known ...

An NIH-funded study will aim to determine whether the circadian clock present inside each cardiac cell can be a viable therapeutic target for treatment of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and ...

In order to better understand her circadian rhythm, science journalist Lynne Peeples conducted an experiment in which lived for 10 days in a bunker, with no exposure to sunlight or clocks.

If you struggle to fall asleep or wake up feeling groggy, an out-of-sync circadian rhythm could be to blame. This internal 24-hour clock controls your sleep-wake cycle, helping your body know when ...

You may have heard that your circadian rhythm is like your inner clock, managing your sleep-wake cycles. But science is now learning it does so much more than that, and ...

The gut microbiome, a lively community of microbes that resides in the digestive tract, seems to run on a 24-hour clock. That may be really important for our health — but scientists are just ...