University of Murcia

A light midday snooze boosts memory and other types of cognition—and your mood

Long naps are associated with a higher risk of obesity, and shorters ones with reduced risk of high blood pressure.

A professor who helped save Europe's largest saltwater lagoon is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, known as the "Green Nobel."

The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.

An international team of researchers finds that the social media messages that resonate best with loyalty program members differ from the posts that work best with other customers. The finding could inform how best to craft social media campaigns aimed at either segment of a company's customer base.

The COVID-19 pandemic not only had tragic consequences for the health of humanity but had massive socioeconomic effects. Indeed, at the time of writing, we are still seeing record numbers of people infected with the coronavirus and there is much disruption to the daily lives of many people and the commercial world of supply and demand.

Learn how early humans employed specialized fire pits to create resins needed to attach stone tool parts to wooden shafts.

New research finds that the area burned by wildfires during summer in California has increased fivefold since 1971 because of more arid conditions caused by climate change

Duration of siestas associated with health outcomes

MIT researchers César Terrer and Wenzhe Jiao are leveraging a new generation of remote sensing devices to provide high-resolution plant water stress data at regional to global scales.

Intercropping is an agricultural practice that involves growing two or more plant species in the same ground at the same time. This practice enables growers not only to increase crop productivity, but also to improve soil quality. Moreover, it brings advantages such as reduced pests and diseases and a greater diversity of microbes and beneficial insects.

Two bioactive, natural-derived compounds, which show activity at the GLP-1R site, may be orally administered with fewer side effects than their pharmaceutical counterparts.

Tiny clumps of cells show basic cognitive abilities, and some animals can remember things after losing their head

Since the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) approved the use of ultrasound to promote the extraction of grape compounds back in 2019, its application for obtaining superior red wines has been studied extensively.

The United States experiences a staggeringly high rate of gun homicides, but accurately predicting these incidents—especially on a monthly basis—has been a significant challenge, due to the lag in the release of official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) firearm mortality data, which is a cornerstone of reliable gun research.

Your brain is not the root of cognition.

Whether it's Valentine's Day, the next day or pretty much any day throughout the entirety of a typical year, many couples will be indulging in sexual...

'Try not to eat within 2 hours of bedtime,' is the message from a new study that found late eating acutely impairs glucose tolerance through a defect in insulin secretion.

A study by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Murcia (UM) challenges the theory that warrior groups with a "Steppe" genetic component originating from Eastern Europe violently replaced the male population of the Iberian Peninsula some 4,200 years ago and presents a different scenario, in which groups with Steppe ancestry mixed with other demographically weakened locals.

Taking long siestas 4 days a week was associated with obesity in a study in Spain. Smoking, later meals, later sleep, and a large lunch appeared to explain part of this relationship.