Every time you stand up and walk across the room, your abdominal muscles contract in a rhythm you probably never notice. According to a study published in Nature Neuroscience in May 2026, those ...

A new skin-like sensor developed by an international team led by researchers at Penn State could help doctors monitor vital signs more accurately, track healing after surgery and even help patients ...

A large international and interdisciplinary research team has developed software to measure the objective kinematic features of movements that express emotions. Is it possible to decode how we feel ...

Motor neurons are the cells the brain uses to command muscles to act. Scientists typically thought of them as simple connections, much like the cables that link computers with their accessories. Now, ...

How does your brain know the position and movement of your different body parts? The sense is known as proprioception, and it is something like a “sixth sense”, allowing us to move freely without ...

The way we move through the world impacts our bodies far more profoundly than most people realize. While nutrition and skincare routinely dominate anti-aging discussions, movement patterns often exert ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Virginia Sole-Smith about the future of the body positivity movement in the wake of weight loss drugs like Ozempic. It's taken some people years to work on loving ...