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At some point between conception and early childhood, pain makes its debut. But when exactly that happens remains one of medicine’s most challenging questions.

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to support her developing fetus. On June 13, 2025, her premature baby, named Chance, was born via cesarean section…

A recent meta-analysis showed that increasing playback speed had increasingly negative effects on test performance

For years, scientists have assumed high levels of p-tau217 always spell trouble. The new research suggests they’ve been wrong

Cough medicine widely used in Europe remains unapproved for use in US, Canada, researchers say

I just can't wait to see BCIs like this in the gaming scene.

A game at the Fiba Under-19 World Cup in Switzerland will be remembered for the unusual help that triggered Australia’s late comeback

Most people associate cognitive decline with obvious memory loss, but the reality is much more nuanced. Subtle changes often appear years before a diagnosis, yet...

Why read boring paper when you could listen to audio signals beamed into your brain via machine? Now THAT is sci-fi.

Letter: Fiona McPherson finds that the earliest usage dates from 1854

A protein long blamed for the brain damage seen in Alzheimer’s disease has now been found in astonishingly high levels in healthy newborn babies, challenging decades of medical dogma.