An excerpt from Tanul Thakur’s ‘Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme’.

Jessica Rendall is a reporter with experience covering a variety of health and wellness topics, including chronic disease, infectious disease, telemedicine, mental health and health technology. Kelly ...

Early in her career, the biggest concerns were the potential impacts of internet and email use on our brains. We may laugh ...

A feature story authored by Simon Spichak, MSc investigates how biotech companies like Cortical Labs and FinalSpark harness ...

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons ...

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities — think of the neural implants that connected to Geordi La Forge’s visor in Star ...

Drugs that enhance the body’s immune response against cancer may also be altering one of its most tightly guarded boundaries: the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A recent study published by Yuval Shaked at ...

Some 200,000 years ago, prehistoric humans ceased using the large, heavy stone tools their ancestors had used for nearly 2 million years before that — such as handaxes, cleavers, and massive scrapers ...

The humanoid robot of the future is a hulking specimen with a body that’s made in China and a brain that runs on American ...

Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive ...

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things. Researchers found that two parts of the brain work ...