A food diary offers more than simple voyeurism—it tells us about the author’s relationship to time, money, and pleasure. The ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.

In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with the help of a lightning storm, ...

Studies on the neurons of mice suggest our own human endurance may have more to do with the brain than our physique.

Newborn finger proportions may reflect early hormone exposure and could be linked to differences in early brain growth.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Feel freezing during a fever? Scientists identify the brain circuit responsible for chills and why it sends signals to your ...

The human brain works in interesting ways - you probably didn't know that your body is paralysed when you sleep or that we ...

How the human body shuts down after death from the brain to the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and even tissues and why some organs remain viable for donation long after life ends.

VIB and Ghent University researchers have identified and characterized a previously unknown cellular barrier in the brain, which sheds new light on how the brain is protected from the rest of the body ...

A Steinway Spirio player piano can capture every detail of a performance and reproduce it, keystroke for keystroke. In ...