As sunlight filters through your window each morning, a quiet, powerful rhythm pulses inside your body. This inner clock ...

Syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being. nambitomo/iStock via Getty Images Plus Anyone who has suffered from jet lag or struggled after ...

Did the holidays mess up your sleep patterns? Maybe you stayed up late ringing in the new year, or changed time zones while traveling. Science journalist Lynne Peeples says the body's circadian ...

Researchers led by Gen Kurosawa at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan have used theoretical physics to discover how our biological clock ...

Is your internal clock keeping you awake at night? Delayed sleep phase syndrome may be to blame, and it's more common than you think. Arielle Burton is an associate content manager on CNET's ...

Disabling a clock protein shields the brain from Alzheimer’s effects—hinting at a new path for neuroprotection. Disrupting ...

The circadian clock is fundamental to healthy metabolism and is determined by a central pacemaker in the brain. Peripheral clocks are found in almost all organs and are set to the central clock by ...

The link between the biological clock and reproduction is evident in most metazoans. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a key model organism in the field of chronobiology because of its ...