Some people with EEE may develop fever, headache, chills and vomiting. The illness may become severe, resulting in encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), disorientation, seizures, coma or death.

While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

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The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers’ understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly’s Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

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The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

A Texas mother confronted her adult son over why he looked “very sweaty” outside his RV – only to find that he was apparently concealing a woman he hacked with a machete. The woman – who ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

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An editorial cartoon lampooning the large number of people running in Halifax's mayoral election is facing criticism for using the image of a monkey to illustrate a candidate. The cartoon ...

Whether you’re walking, running, hiking, or merely existing—sweaty feet are inevitable. But there are a slew of risks that come with that bodily function. If your feet overheat and sweat too ...