Our bodies are able to perceive time thanks to our internal clocks, which are also used by the other living beings with which we interact.
Articles on Biological clock
Displaying all articles
Adolescent biology, early morning classes and too much evening screen time are a few of the key drivers behind teen sleep deprivation.
Your body follows a circadian rhythm that influences everything from how well your medications work to the best time for exercise.
Circadian clocks regulate the timing of hundreds of processes in the cell, suggesting that matching medications with your biological clock could improve the outcome
Americans Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young share the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work that explained how our cells keep track of time.
Whether you’re a night owl or a morning lark, circadian rhythms control just about every aspect of your health.
We’re used to thinking of our eyes detecting light as the foundation of our visual system. But what’s going on in other cells throughout the body that can detect light, too?
As the years advance, time flies faster. Here’s why.
It might be that teaching people to reframe their thoughts about winter can help them overcome seasonal affective disorder year after year.
Is a woman’s longing for a child evolution at work, or social conditioning? And what about those who don’t want kids? Are they defying nature? Probably not, as almost everyone wants sex.
The shift towards late motherhood – commonly defined as motherhood after 35 – is often presented as a story of progress and technological liberation from the biological clock. The narrative goes something…
Throughout our lives we experience changes in sleep patterns and in the amount of sleep we need. While babies sleep between 16 and 18 hours per day, this is reduced to approximately seven to eight hours…
The new discovery of a protein could help predict how much time is left on a woman’s biological clock. Dr Sara Al-Musawi…
We all know about the reproductive “biological clock” in women reminding them of the finite time in which they can have children. Now researchers have found evidence that men also have a reproductive “best…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Physical & Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
-
Professor of Psychology, University of Vermont
-
Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Mark Elgar is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology, The University of Melbourne
-
Institute Manager, Órama - Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Flinders University
-
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology, University of Warwick
-
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement, University of Bath
-
PhD Candidate, Yale University
-
Researcher in marine biology and chronobiology, Universität Wien
-
Assistant Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University
-
Associate Professor (Reader) in Biochemical Medicine, University of Warwick
-
Professor of Biology, University of Washington