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Researchers at University College London have found strong proof of Alzheimer's disease transmission from one person to another. In a few very rare cases, scientists showed how a treatment involving human growth hormone transferred harmful proteins to children, leading...

New research by three top universities in the U.S. has uncovered an interesting fact about our brains. Our two nostrils, despite being right next to each other, are kind of doing their own thing when it comes to smelling. Scientists have...

A brand-new vaccine seems to halt Alzheimer's disease in its tracks, giving hope that we might be nearing the end of this disease. Researchers conducted a study using the vaccine on mice, and the results were remarkable. Not only did...

A recent discovery made public at Nutrition 2023, the yearly gathering of the American Society for Nutrition in Boston, unveils that adding olive oil to your meals can bring various advantages, like safeguarding your heart and boosting cognitive function. Moreover,...

A fetus was discovered in the brain of a one year old child in a very unusual occurrence that was reported by doctors in Florida. After seeing symptoms like delayed development of motor skills, an increased head circumference, and...

The world's oldest preserved brain was found in a 319 million-year-old fish fossil, British scientists announced recently. The fossilized Coccocephalus wildi was found in a coal mine in the British region of Lancashire more than a century ago and had...

With astonishing but still imperfect accuracy, artificial intelligence (AI) can decode words and sentences from brain activity. AI makes an estimate as to what a person has heard based on a few seconds worth of brain activity data. In a...

A new scientific study suggests that human brains make more neural connections during development, a phenomenon that leads to growing brains and differentiates us from Neanderthals. Scientists have always pondered what makes humans a special species with some suggesting it's...

Researchers have recently taught human brain cells in a petri dish to play the retro videogame Pong faster than artificial intelligence (AI). Scientists created what they dubbed the "cyborg brain" in order to measure biological neurons against AI. This "brain"...

Bruce Willis, 67, has been diagnosed with aphasia a brain condition that affects his ability to understand language and will be stepping away from acting, his family announced on Wednesday. In a statement posted to social media, his family said:...