The progression of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood, but new research may have found how the plaques that cause it ...

The sport's links to the disease are unproven but it has left a traumatic legacy in affecting so many high-profile players worldwide ...

Daniher has long bowed to Viktor Frankl, who survived Nazi concentration camps and later postulated that those prisoners most ...

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells. But how these ...

Researchers have developed a new type of artificial neuron that physically emulates the electrochemical processes of ...

Johns Hopkins scientists found that neurons form tiny nanotube networks to transport toxins like amyloid-beta.

A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony life - in order.

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology ...

Life depends on motion. To eat, go home, or explore, we must know where we are, where we want to go and how to get there. We ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...