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Nerve transfer surgery has enabled 13 young adults with complete paralysis to regain movement and function in their elbows and hands, according to the largest case series of this technique in people with tetraplegia (par...

Cancer took more than 8.7 million years of life and $94.4 billion in lost earnings among people ages 16 to 84 in the United States in 2015.

Scientists have discovered that a special type of cell is much more prolific in generating a protective sheath covering nerve fibers than previously believed.

Pain signals can travel as fast as touch signals, according to a new study. The discovery of a rapid pain-signaling system challenges our current understanding of pain.

A small chemical change -- shifting the position of two hydrogen atoms -- makes the difference between mice that are healthy or that have insulin resistance and fatty liver, major risk factors for diabetes and heart dise...

A novel surgical technique that connects functioning nerves with injured nerves helps restore function to paralyzed muscles. Following surgery, 13 young adults with tetraplegia now have restored hand and elbow function, ...

Sensory processing difficulties associated with ASD, ADHD, and PTSD often result in 'meltdown' behaviors. While researchers are making headway into discovering the mechanisms behind sensory dysfunction, many in society d...

Stress and tiredness make it harder for you to ignore environmental cues that signal something rewarding.

In a paper released today in Science Advances, Australian researchers describe the first observation of a native ferroelectric metal: a native metal with bistable and electrically switchable spontaneous polarization stat...

Theta oscillations help the brain remember locations to which a person is trying to navigate.

Researchers call it the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

There's a reason men do a third as much housework as women do.

Using holographic optogenetics, researchers were able to control visual behavior in mice by activating neurons in the visual cortex.

Ransomware attacks, which see which see individuals and organisations locked out of their data unless they pay up, are on the rise and raking in huge profits

A huge lake of sizzling hot lava has been discovered in a volcano on a remote sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

People with quadriplegia can feed themselves and brush their teeth thanks to nerve surgery - and doctors say it's time to make the surgery more widely available

Egypt's ministry of antiquities thinks the statue was stolen from the Karnak Temple some time after 1970.

Bodies could start to be buried alongside main roads in the UK, as graveyards and cemeteries are running out of room, suggests a former direct of public health

More than a thousand sharks and rays have become entangled in plastic debris, a team has found by reviewing scientific papers and Twitter

Early weather stations only covered 20 per cent of the globe, causing them to underestimate how much our greenhouse gas emissions have warmed the climate

Want to help save the world from climate change? Then grab some seeds, or some seedlings, and start planting trees like there's no tomorrow.

That may be true for the short missions astronauts have gone on so far. But Mars will be a different story.