Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

Our tale follows the titular Romeo Stargazer, a sheriff’s deputy in the small town of Deadford (you’re going to notice a pattern with the naming conventions pretty fast, if you haven’t already) in ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Things Boomers learned in school that turned out to be wrong Baby Boomers sat through countless lessons that seemed ironclad at the time. Teachers confidently taught ...

Many strategies fail not for lack of vision, but because employees don’t understand or aren’t sold on enacting them. A new study found—and years of consultant work affirm—that while traditional, ...

University of Missouri researchers are developing new ways to better simulate the complex nature of human brain tissue. For ...

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

What is connectomics? The field comprehensively mapping connections between synapses to reshape what we know about the brain.

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

Nova Scotia will be the first site in the world to test a potentially groundbreaking cancer treatment. Global pharmaceutical ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...