Rocking Improves Sleep, Boosts Memory

Sleeping on a rhythmically swaying surface helps synchronize sleep oscillations in the human brain, a study finds.

Rocking Improves Sleep, Boosts Memory

Sleeping on a rhythmically swaying surface helps synchronize sleep oscillations in the human brain, a study finds.

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Demystifying the Brain’s GPS

Tanya Lewis | Jul 12, 2016 | 4 min read

Studies in rodents are beginning to reveal how mammalian navigational sense works.

Bat Navigation Revealed

Bob Grant | Dec 4, 2014 | 5 min read

As the flying mammals navigate complex environments, they make use of specialized brain cells that cooperate to build a coordinate system that works in three dimensions.

Joeanna Arthur: Charting a Path

Kate Yandell | Oct 1, 2014 | 3 min read

Project Scientist, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Age: 32