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

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

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Scientists have developed a new technique for non-invasive brain imaging – and it involves shining light all the way through ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

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

A collaborative team led by the School of Engineering’s Haneesh Kesari works to better prevent, detect and understand ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside a laboratory at Monash University, miniature replicas of the human brain are revealing secrets that could forever change how we treat childhood ...

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Think about the breath-holding pause at a poker table just after the dealer slips one card face down. In that blink-long hush ...