The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal.

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, catching up with similar achievements in sight ...

'It was quite a shock' ...

Being told by doctors that her daughter Nancy would die from brain cancer was devastating for mum Gemma. "It felt like the ground had come away from underneath me," she recalls. N ...

The mum-of-two has now become the first patient in the UK to join a pioneering new study at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre ...

At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, ...

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown.

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published ...

Neurable, which makes noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, is licensing its technology and promises a “flood” of new third-party hardware this year and next.

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he had never ...