Researchers have made progress against ‘the skull challenge,’ getting through barriers that prohibit ultrasound from imaging ...

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

Synchron, a top Neuralink competitor, rarely lets journalists visit its New York headquarters. What I saw there reveals the ...

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers detected biophotons emitted by the human brain from outside the skull for the first time.

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Some traffickers have resumed the shocking practice of hiding drugs in dead bodies, a method previously referred to as ...

During an immigration raid on Thursday, a worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm. A farmworkers union had initially ...

"The brain has no pain receptors. Although it processes pain signals from other parts of the body, the brain itself cannot ...