Hypnic jerks (also referred to as sleep starts) are involuntary muscle contractions that occur infrequently for most of us.

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

Poland-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones. The company built the robot with the hopes that it will one day be able to operate human ...

Our muscles work in harmony, twitching and pulling fibers in perfect coordination. While some align in straight lines for ...

A seemingly small question has shifted how scientists understand the relationship between the brain and the body.

HOLLY Turner was devastated when her sister was diagnosed with an incurable disease that stole her mum just years earlier – ...

Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause a wave of symptoms, but like other conditions, they can be vague and hard to pinpoint. For months, Angelica Cassidy was plagued with spasms in different parts of her ...

Dr Punam Krishan, a regular on BBC Morning Live, spoke to co-hosts Gethin Jones and Sara Cox about twitching eyes and what ...

Holly was devastated when her sister was diagnosed with MND in summer 2022 - after she became ill in 2021. The sisters had ...

Emily Bedrick Graubart, MD There are several different things that can cause eyelid twitches. Anything that irritates the eye like a dry-eye syndrome or blepharitis, which means inflammation of ...