Richard Stephens’ brain felt as if it were jiggling around inside his skull. If he turned his head, his vision wobbled for a ...

Scientists found that brain cells can tap a hidden sugar stash to clean up the toxic proteins behind Alzheimer’s. By kick-starting an enzyme called GlyP, they reroute stored sugar into a protective ...

Yet, every year, thousands of these brains are put at unnecessary risk, often due to outdated or inadequate head protection ...

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted tomography. He shared it with Allan Cormack, a physicist who had worked out the ...

Will Leitch’s latest literary novel, “Llyod McNeil’s Last Ride,” will inspire, uplift, and break your heart. How do you tell your loved ones that you are dying? Llyod McNeil faces his most formidable ...

A midbrain structure responsible for eye movement has been discovered that also plays a key role in cognitive perception and ...

To test the limits, the researchers started by firing a powerful, ultrafast laser into the side of a volunteer’s head. The ...

Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition ...

In a nutshell Scientists successfully transmitted light through an entire adult human head for the first time, overcoming extreme attenuation of 10^18 to detect individual photons The technique can ...

In short, yes they are. "It's something very close. The human brain is roughly 77 to 78 per cent water," says Chan. "Our brains require water to function properly.

A human brain weighs in at about 1,500 grams, huge compared to a 450-gram bear brain. And yet our olfactory bulb is the size of a pencil eraser. The bear's is the size of your thumb.

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