Awake

Scientists have successfully recorded brain activity from freely moving octopuses, a feat made possible by implanting electrodes and a data logger directly into the creatures. The study, published online in Current Biology on February 23,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Jan 2, 2023; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Buffalo Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (49) and cornerback Cam Lewis (39) and cornerback Siran Neal (33) react to the life threatening injury sustained by safety Damar Hamlin…

Sleep is like style, or befriending a cat: the more you try to get it, the more elusive it becomes. Recently, I became ensconced in one of those terrible insomnia spirals, the kind many of us descended into during lockdown when there was…

New research provides clues to falling fast asleep -- or lying wide awake. Studying fruit flies, the researchers found that brain neurons adapt to help the flies stay awake despite tiredness in dangerous situations and help them fall asleep…

A new technique which combines the use of two ultrasound technologies may offer an option to move kidney stones out of the ureter with minimal pain and no anesthesia, according to a new feasibility study published today in The Journal of…

Researchers from the GIGA CRC In vivo Imaging at the University of Liège (Belgium), the EPF Lausanne and the University of Geneva publish a study that shows that the phenomenology of "mind blanking" challenges the belief that the human mind…

Even if you haven't played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you would have probably still seen the iconic “You're finally awake” cart-ride intro in some meme or the other. Though the scene is remembered fondly, a former developer at Bethesda…

A large multicenter, randomized clinical trial revealed no difference in the risk of endotracheal intubation requirement at 30 days between awake prone positioning and standard positioning for patients with COVID-19 who suffered from acute…

Welcome to a new era of the Silver Ferns, where an athlete can be named the player of the year one year and be left out the next. Silver Ferns' coach Dame Noeline Taurua unveiled some surprises as she named her team for the…

A nervous 18-year-old Yuvraj Singh was pranked by then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly just before the youngster's India debut in 2000. It made the former…