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A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults ...

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Placebo effects, in which patients experience relief without therapeutic treatment, increasingly have been considered as ...

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After a stroke, the brain may do something surprisingly hopeful—it can “refresh” parts of itself. Researchers analyzing brain scans from over 500 stroke survivors found that while the damaged side of ...

A new neural implant is so small it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can track and wirelessly transmit brain activity for over a year. It’s powered by laser light that safely passes through tissue ...

The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists. By Vivienne Walt Vivienne Walt, a DealBook contributor ...

Reviving a frozen brain sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but a new study gives clues to how scientists might one day do that. Researchers in Germany managed to freeze mouse-brain tissue in ...

There are plenty of things lying around your home that are perfectly safe alone, but wildly dangerous when mixed together. Take common household cleaning supplies like vinegar and bleach, for example.

Fox Carolina evening news anchor Tori Carmen is back on air and cancer-free nearly one year after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor that upended her life and accelerated her wedding plans ...