NEW YORK: Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a...
NEW YORK: It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old, and scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest...
NEW YORK: So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good chance of above-average...
NEW YORK: Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains from famed aviator Amelia Earhart, a new analysis concludes....
NEW YORK: From the murky depths of Spanish caves comes a surprising insight: Neanderthals created art. That’s been proposed before, but experts say two new...
NEW YORK: Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of...
NEW YORK: Pregnancy affects not only a woman’s body: It changes parts of her brain too, a new study says. When researchers compared brain scans of women...
NEW YORK: Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her “digital attic” – a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and...
NEW YORK: A paralyzed 24-year-old man has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain. Ian...
NEW YORK: You may be more similar to your friends than you think: A study suggests that the DNA code tends to be more alike between friends than between...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways...
NEW YORK: Chimpanzees in a midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup for a joke. But there it is, in the title of a report published Monday in a scientific...
NEW YORK: Scientists in the U.S. have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that someday could be used to...
NEW YORK: Teens who routinely smoke marijuana risk a long-term drop in their IQ, a new study suggests. The researchers didn’t find the same IQ decline...
NEW YORK: Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips,...
NEW YORK: The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual. But don't...
NEW YORK: No one knows what led a U.S. neighborhood watch captain to shoot an unarmed teenager carrying no weapon. But a new study raises an intriguing...
NEW YORK: A biotechnology company announced it has developed a machine to decode an individual’s DNA in a day for $1,000, a long-sought price goal for...
NEW YORK: As scientists struggle to find a vaccine to prevent AIDS virus infections, a study in mice suggests hope for a new approach – one that...
NEW YORK: George Eberhardt turned 107 last month, and scientists would love to know how he and other older folks like him made it that far. So he’s...
NEW YORK: It sounds like science fiction, while volunteers watched movie clips, a scanner watched their brains. And from their brain activity, a computer made...
NEW YORK: Are these planets without orbits? Astronomers have found 10 potential planets as massive as Jupiter wandering through a slice of the Milky Way,...