We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

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It sounds like pure science fiction. Remove a healthy human head from a dying body, connect it to a different healthy body, and bring "the person" back to consciousness. Equal parts Frankenstein and ...

Researchers have captured the living mechanics of hearing for the first time by sustaining a piece of cochlear tissue outside ...

When a supercentenarian, someone who is older than 110 years old, is interviewed, they are inevitably asked to share their tips for longevity.

From primal survival to modern technology, the brain has carried us across millions of years of change. Yet the instincts that kept us alive long ago still shape us today.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

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Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

UCLA scientists, medical professors and graduate students are accustomed to presenting their research — into cancer, stroke, brain injury, nerve regeneration — at conferences of their peers with the ...