Do you handle stress well? Thank your dad
Research finds that mice display the same stress responses as their fathers
Chronic noise exposure isn't just bad for your hearing — it's also bad for your heart
Living next to a busy highway could keep stress hormones chronically elevated, damaging the body
Stress hormones and mitochondrial health determine who will lose muscle after surgery
New research uncovers the cellular and genetic risk factors of post-surgery muscle loss
The mysterious link between stress, gut inflammation, and Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is related to neurons, but could it be driven by the gut?
Overactive neurons may explain why some people develop stress-induced anxiety and depression
The research also points to sex differences in how male and female mice respond to stressful events
Fungi learn how to cope with drought, but at a cost
Understanding what climate change will do to belowground ecosystems helps us predict what will happen aboveground, too
Tracking specific hair cells reveals how stress causes gray hair
The science of why stress changes hair color
Being exposed to reactive oxygen helps worms live longer lives
Worms exposed to reactive oxygen species early in life actually lived about 18% longer than their unexposed counterparts
Some brains are more susceptible to PTSD after trauma than others
Everyone experiences trauma, but in some brains, PTSD arises where others aren't at as much risk
Warmer, less oxygenated water is a tough environment for fish
Researchers are doing experiments to understand how zebrafish deal with environmental stress
Silver-haired bats wake up, re-heat their bodies, and flee when attacked
They can warm themselves up faster than any other mammal, increasing the odds that they escape incoming predators
How do we measure pain, anyway?
You can't exactly ask a rat to point to where it hurts
The secret to sounder sleep may be lurking in our guts
New research shows that stressed med students on probiotics got better shut-eye
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Your body's cells adapt to stress to avoid making mistakes
Our biological building blocks may be much more resilient than scientists thought possible