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Don't ignore heart attack symptoms while traveling, keep emergency numbers at hand. That's the main message of a new study. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of natural death among people who are traveling, yet...

The brain...it likes to play

To help promote the highest standards of care, and improve the overall rates of survival and recovery following TBI, a panel of pediatric critical care, neurosurgery and other pediatric experts today issued the third edi...

Asking participants to bungee jump helps researchers measure Bereitschaftspotential, or readiness potential, outside the lab setting. Researchers say their findings will help in the development of BCIs to assist quadripl...

A new study reveals how male sex steroids impact brain development. The findings could help shed light on behavioral developmental differences between males and females.

NEUROSCIENCE Doctors Plan to Test a Gene Therapy That Could Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review “Eventually, the hope is, middle-aged people with risky genes might undergo one-time ge...

Scientists have yet to find a truly sleepless creature. But is sleep really necessary for survival?

An analysis of Twitter data suggests weird weather is soon viewed as normal, which means we risk ignoring the effects of climate change, says Frances Moore

Russian scientist Zhores Alferov, who won the Nobel physics prize for his work in semi-conductor and laser technologies, has died, agencies said on Saturday. He was 88.

Embedding a molecule called TRPM8 into the surface of some cells helps reduce aggression and sexual appetite in mice, a new study reports.