The brain needs to flush out waste products to stay healthy and fend off conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Scientists are beginning to understand how the the brain's waste removal system works.

"It felt like my brain was coming out of my skull." Tom Shaw was 24 when he began suffering from extreme headaches. But as a self-employed person who had recently bought a house he felt he "couldn ...

A high-stakes technology race is playing out in the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon ...

Researchers have made progress against ‘the skull challenge,’ getting through barriers that prohibit ultrasound from imaging ...

In a blacked out room, 20 participants wore head caps studded with electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes to measure the brain’s electrical activity. Photon-amplifying tubes to detect UPEs were ...

The researchers point out that if the human brain absorbs data at 10 bits per second, then in 100 years, operating 24 hours a day, it can soak up no more than about 4 gigabits. Of course, DNA encodes ...

"It felt like my brain was coming out of my skull." Tom Shaw was 24 when he began suffering from extreme headaches. But as a self-employed person who had recently bought a house he felt he "couldn ...