For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn’t ...

High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to destroy tumors while sparing healthy tissue. But lower-intensity pulses may have a different effect—they reshape the battlefield, making ...

Your sleeping brain is not quiet. Electrical waves roll across it, blood vessels rhythmically change size and cerebrospinal fluid moves in pulses that may help carry waste away. MIT researchers have ...

As opposed to the sensory perception of the external world, interoception is the sensing of internal body signals, which informs the brain about the state of the body. Rhythmic bodily processes such ...

A tiny sea creature might hold the secret to reversing the aging process. When treated with a brief series of electrical pulses, sea squirts experience dramatic and long-lasting health improvements ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are testing a technology that delivers electrical pulses directly to the brain that are strong enough to activate neurons.

An electrical zap to the brain can temporarily render a person more susceptible to hypnosis, a new study shows. Participants became more easily hypnotized after paddles placed against their scalp ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army researchers are exploring ways to boost soldiers' sleep to increase cognition and performance. Doctors at the U.S. Army ...

With numerical simulations, researchers have demonstrated a new way to time weak electrical pulses that can stop certain life-threatening arrhythmias. The group shows that timed pulses are successful ...

Stanford researchers found that brief pulses of electrical current can dramatically reverse stem cell damage in sea squirts and significantly extend their lifespans. The treatment triggers a two-phase ...