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 recent paper in Sleep Medicine (Uguccioni, G., Golmard, J.-L., de Fontréaux, A.N., Leu-Semenescu, S., Brion, A., Arnulf, I.Fight or flight? Dream content during ...

In a new study, jumping spiders seem to exhibit similar sleep patterns to humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine a ...

A jumping spider hanging upside down from a silk thread in a laboratory. Credit: Daniela Rößler The next time you spot a spider hanging upside down in your apartment, it might actually be snoozing ...

Dreams feel mysterious, confusing, and sometimes magical, but scientific research suggests they are far more meaningful than ...

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 ...

REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is a stage of semi-deep sleep, often referred to as “paradoxical sleep,” and is "a state of sleep when brain activity shows similar patterns as being awake," says Wendy ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

Barred from her lab by pandemic restrictions, behavioral ecologist Daniela C. Rößler caught local jumping spiders and kept them in clear plastic boxes on her windowsill, planning to test their ...

Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His latest book is Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. Vaughn PhD is a neuroscientist at UCLA. When he was two years old, Ben ...