Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Jean Milne is one of 44 patients to receive a letter from NHS Tayside saying sorry for not properly alerting them to the ...

Every major Star Trek series has pulled this classic move, from The Original Series to Deep Space Nine to Starfleet Academy.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have taken another page right out of a science fiction novel. This time, by designing and building microscopic, ...

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We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

An update on a decades-long investigation has suggested that brain training can lower the risk of dementia. The Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study, which ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — In a neurology lab at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Benjamin Brinkmann studies the brain's electrical rhythms across days, weeks and months — searching for patterns that reveal when seizures ...

Phil Lord and Chris Miller direct the adaptation of 'The Martian' author Andy Weir's interstellar novel. By Aaron Couch Film Editor “The movie is genre defying. It’s emotional and it is funny and it’s ...

Scientists have new insight into why we have trouble focusing after a bad night of sleep. Attention lapses when we’re sleep-deprived result from our brain’s efforts to clean itself up, a process that ...

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...