Brain

Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and…

Ice Skating and the Brain How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.…

It’s hard to explain how it feels to be behind an artillery piece when it fires. First is the roaring…

Exposure to blasts, even at low levels, may play a much greater role in veterans’ mental health struggles than has…

A laboratory found a pattern of cell damage that has been seen in veterans exposed to weapons blasts, and said…

After a 40-year-old Army Reservist named Robert Card went on a shooting spree in Lewiston, Maine, in October, his community…

A blast shattered the stillness of a meadow in the Ozark Mountains on an autumn afternoon. Then another, and another,…

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only…

A new study describes a method for faster and more precise diagnoses, which can help surgeons decide how aggressively to…

Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight…