Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days that follow. For many other organs, blood tests can indicate acute injury, ...

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Share on Pinterest Our brains may only reach adulthood in our 30s, a recent study says. Image credit: Johner Images/Getty Images The brain develops through distinct phases over the course of a ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

A fourth grader from Ontario, Canada, has caused hysterics online for one of her answers in a spelling test. Tara Heshka (@eet_cake) posted an image of her 9-year-old daughter’s test from October 20 ...

Here are three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with each of the others to create another common word. What is it? When the answer finally comes to you, it’ll likely feel ...

Going on antidepressants can give many people their life back, but for some there is a catch. About 25% to 80% of people who take antidepressants experience sexual side effects to some degree during ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

No level of alcohol is safe for the brain and even light drinking is linked to an increased risk for dementia, results of a large observational study suggested. The research combined observational ...

Grief can strike people in a variety of ways, impacting how they handle their daily lives. The pain which a loss can cause may never truly heal. When Elizabeth McGuiness lost her son Nicholas to brain ...

Starting next month, green card holders seeking to become U.S. citizens will be taking a new and longer version of the naturalization test. The 2025 Naturalization Civics Test will have more potential ...

(NEXSTAR) — As part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is expanding and altering its Naturalization ...