SONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University of Sydney, 16 July 2025, […]
physiology
Depression is a form of jet lag.
Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and […]
People who can’t smell breathe differently.
Popular Science shares a finding that people born without the ability to smell actually inhale and exhale differently than people who can tell what it […]
Moon running on the Wall of Death
Science News finds inspiration from the carnival for a new way to keep astronauts in shape, by running along the inside of a circular wall […]
Exercise slows down your perception of time.
Science Alert brings us (well, those of us who are working out) one step closer to moving like the wind through a world of living […]
Say it to me deeply.
Science Daily reports on research into the psychological effects of the pitch of people’s voices. It’s fairly well known that people find men’s voices more […]
Here’s why long covid makes you tired.
Amsterdam-based researchers have isolated a physical mechanism behind the fatigue that strikes some people for months after a covid infection. It comes down to the […]
Exercise scientists: women hunted, men gathered
Scientific American upends the old idea that manly men evolved to hunt for meat for growing prehistoric families with physiological evidence that women – who […]
No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main […]
How a ballerina spins, as a neurophysical phenomenon.
The journal Human Movement Science carries research from Swiss sports scientists who have used ballet dancers to figure out how it can be possible for […]
The key to staying fit when you’re less active is maintaining your intensity.
Outside takes a hard, scientific look at our pandemic year (and our softening middle sections) using a measure called “VO2,” which is a way of […]
Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely […]
Everything you know about low-fat dieting is wrong.
Nature reveals that low-fat diets don’t really help you lose weight: An analysis of 53 weight-loss studies that included more than 68,000 people has concluded […]
A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish: […]
Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock: Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience higher incidents […]