A high-stakes technology race is playing out in the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with ...

However, a pair of fossilized skull fragments recently found off the Javanese coast are helping experts recontextualize the ...

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Behind the gleam of blinking screens, scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science staged one of the most intriguing confrontations in science. The goal was to uncover what makes us ...

while a contrecoup injury is one in which a high-impact blow causes the brain to collide against the opposite side of the skull. It is also possible to have a coup and contrecoup injury—referred to as ...

The scene is incongruously cheerful: wearing blue surgical gloves, Pimjai Sornrach grinned broadly as she held a skull, declaring "it's so good, it's so good", while her smiling friend held up a ...

Levi Wany, 21, was enjoying a night out in Huddersfield Town Centre on Wednesday, April 23, when an exchange turned into a violent attack that left Levi needing over 50 stitches and with a bleed on ...

Last week, Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: "This is a good Jap — a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach." Natalie, surprised ...

After learning about this cemetery full of deformed skulls, read about the Aztec tower of human skulls transforming from legend to archaeological fact. Then, learn about the unearthed Philistine ...