New research highlights the alarming impact of sleep deprivation on cognitive function

(Photo credit: OpenAI's DALL·E)

A recent study published in Experimental Brain Research has shed new light on how complete sleep deprivation affects the brain’s ability to process and integrate multiple stimuli presented in sequence. Researchers found that a full day without sleep significantly impairs attentional and temporal integration mechanisms. In other words, being without sleep for an entire day … Read more

A big impact that made the moon may have also created moving continents

About 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had an encounter with Theia, another Mars-sized planetary object. When the two worlds collided in a big impact, the mind goes, the debris was shot into space, locked in the orbit of the young Earth, damaged it, and led to the formation of our moon. But … Read more