Rare genetic disease makes scientists reconsider what the ‘seat of fear’ in the brain really is
The wind picks up dust from the unpaved road one afternoon in December as Jack van Honk turns into a ramshackle neighborhood in Lambert’s Bay,...
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Why aren’t brain transplants possible?
At the Alcor facility in Arizona, more than 150 disembodied heads reportedly lie in cryogenic chambers, preserved in hopes that future medical advances can bring...
Estrogen in both the male and female brain shapes responses to trauma, study suggests
High estrogen in the brain’s memory center may worsen one’s resilience against traumatic events, swaying the tendency to develop memory problems or post-traumatic stress in...
New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time
An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with...
Scientists invent artificial neurons that ‘talk’ to real brain cells, paving way to better brain implants
Engineers have printed tiny, artificial neurons that can “talk” to mouse brain cells, and the development could pave the way to innovations in computing and...
Brain aging results from a loss of control over how genes are regulated, mouse study suggests
Aging may “erase” the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may snowball to cause unintended consequences, a new mouse study...
Sleep deprivation triggers a cascade of harmful signals from the brain to the gut
A night or two of poor sleep can do more than cause tiredness — it may also mess with stem cells in the gut, making...
‘The brain consistently moved upward and backward’: Astronauts’ brains physically shift in their heads during spaceflight
Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward...
Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine’s gift idea from nature
This week’s science news was filled with astonishing stories about ecological transformations. Topping the list was the finding that China has planted so many trees...
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a ‘giant’ who’d had brain surgery
Archaeologists have unearthed a Viking Age pit filled with the dismembered remains of 10 people in the outskirts of Cambridge, England. The unusual mass grave,...