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The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.

A new study demonstrates a dangerous bi-directional risk loop between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurological diseases.

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite unresolved ethical and ...

Neurosurgeons have completed the first-in-human clinical implant of the Paradromics Connexus wireless brain-computer interface (BCI).

Great ape cognition is highly individualized, dynamic, and structurally distinct from human intelligence.

A new study suggests that adding probiotic therapy to standard care can provide modest but meaningful relief for older adults suffering from moderate depression.

Archaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side.

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve them following a stroke

By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics, scientists and engineers worldwide seek to enable systems with extraordinary capabilities. Many of them are working on the highly anticipated development of quant...

A new study reveals that amyloid precursor protein (APP), long studied merely as the source of toxic plaques in Alzheimer's disease, serves a vital protective role as a cellular guardian.

Feedback is delighted to explore research digging into the relationship between a reptile's body mass and the length of its Wikipedia entry - but would like to throw Godzilla into the mix

Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives - and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles

A public-private partnership in the Mountain West announced new results today that mark steady progress toward the Department of Energy's goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing, systems large and reliable enough to...

The physical migration of newborn neurons through dense brain tissue causes routine, widespread double-strand DNA breaks.

Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.

The oldest known evidence of the plague killing people has been found in Siberia, and it carried a gene that may have made it particularly deadly for children.

A new study demonstrates that adverse social determinants of health, such as childhood trauma, poverty, discrimination, and isolation, are directly linked to structural and functional brain changes associated with schizo...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbreaks before the advent of farming and large settlements

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing

By the timewereborn,our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, andpossibly evensome conscious awareness

By the timewereborn,our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, andpossibly evensome conscious awareness

A new study shows that an ingestible, vibrating capsule can help clinicians determine relapse risk in patients recovering from anorexia nervosa.