Otto Loewi’s groundbreaking discovery wasn’t just born in a lab it was born in a dream. Imagine this: it’s Easter weekend in 1920, and Loewi wakes up in the middle of the night, scribbles ...

Otto Loewi's Nobel idea arose from a dream, showcasing sleep's role in sparking innovation. His frog heart experiment bridged chemical and electrical neurophysiology, reshaping neuroscience.

In 1921, Nobel Prize winner Otto Loewi had a problem. For 17 years he had suspected that nerve cells communicated with one another through chemical transmission rather than electrical waves.

In 1920, the night before Easter Sunday, Otto Loewi woke up, seemingly possessed of an important idea. He wrote it down on a piece of paper and promptly returned to sleep. When he reawakened, he ...