Brain tumours are rare, but their early signs are easy to mistake for stress, tiredness or the menopause. Researchers explain ...

Abigail Dove receives funding from Alzheimerfonden, Demensfonden, and the Loo and Hans Osterman Foundation for Medical Research. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet sleep is anything but ...

Lonni Sue Johnson’s amnesia is revealing important connections between memory, personality, and consciousness.

It’s not every day I get to try out an entirely new type of tech product. Telescope company Unistellar recently gave me the chance to do just that with Envision, the first smart binoculars that can ...

Workloads, system performance, and the need to continually learn and adapt are demolishing constraints that have made chip ...

Your brain isn’t built for endless stress. This overlooked emotion can hit the reset button. The northern lights, seen here over Tasiilaq Fjord, Greenland, in 2017, can trigger awe—a state scientists ...

Brain teasers are a great way to give your mental muscles the needed workout. Your brain is divided into two hemispheres: left and right. Brain teasers are effective at engaging both hemispheres at ...

"Lossless" and "lossy" are both types of compression. A zipped file is lossless, because when you unzip it, every original bit is still there from the original file. A JPEG, however, is a "lossy" file ...

Your body will almost certainly rebel if you drink too much alcohol in a night. But what if it reacts after just a sip or two? If you notice odd symptoms like facial flushing, a runny nose, or even a ...

The highly unusual pursuit of baring one’s soul to a machine might not be the most adventurous way to spend a Saturday ...

If an aneurysm ruptures, it releases blood into the brain or surrounding areas—a condition known as a hemorrhage. Any ...

A new study shows that listening to a steady rhythm prompts the brain to reorganize its networks dynamically, syncing ...