It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the ...

The corpus callosum (in red) connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres and facilitates communication between the so-called "right brain" and "left brain." Source: Life Science ...

Human beings spend nearly a third of their lives asleep, and nearly 80 percent of our sleeping hours are occupied by "slow wave activity," when waves of electrical activity massage the brain once per ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a frontier of fundamental physics. Yet in laboratories around the world, carefully ...

If you keep a close eye on an MRI scan of the brain, you'll see a wave pass through the entire brain like a heartbeat once every few seconds. This ultra-slow rhythm was recognized decades ago, but no ...

LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves came almost exactly a century after Einstein had formulated his general theory of relativity and an ensuing paper mathematically describing the possibility of ...