Every time you stand up and walk across the room, your abdominal muscles contract in a rhythm you probably never notice. According to a study published in Nature Neuroscience in May 2026, those ...

Credit: Penn State A new study reveals that simple body movements may help clean the brain. Scientists have found that the ...

Penn State researchers found that abdominal muscle contractions during movement push cerebrospinal fluid through the brain, ...

Walking has earned a reputation as a great form of exercise that’s easy and accessible for many people, and scores of studies show the popular activity has numerous health benefits, too. Getting at ...

The way we move through the world impacts our bodies far more profoundly than most people realize. While nutrition and skincare routinely dominate anti-aging discussions, movement patterns often exert ...

A new skin-like sensor developed by an international team led by researchers at Penn State could help doctors monitor vital signs more accurately, track healing after surgery and even help patients ...

Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

I was teaching a reformer class one week when a student who had been taking classes with me for almost a year complained about her belly fat. She asked me why she didn't have a flat tummy. I told her ...

It is well established that unrealistic images of the fit feminine body can lead to body dissatisfaction, body image distortion, various types of eating-disordered behaviors, and mental health issues.

Spontaneous, random baby movements aid development of their sensorimotor system, according to new research. Detailed motion capture of newborns and infants was combined with a musculoskeletal computer ...