The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of ...

A surgeon dropped a fragment of a woman’s skull while she underwent surgery for terminal brain cancer — and joked about the ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors. It's invasive, risky ...

On this episode of Primer, we explore the world of biocomputing, where scientists are blurring the lines between the biological and synthetic.

Researchers have developed robotic tools so small they could slip into the brain and perform surgery without ever cracking ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Three hikers found human remains near the South Yuba Fork Bridge, the Nevada County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. The ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...