The discovery could help scientists advance research into conditions including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and spinal muscular atrophy Getty Scientists at ...

As anyone reading this probably knows, the Bad Brains were one of the most important punk-rock bands of all time, Washington D.C.-bred pioneers of the sound that became hardcore. While they were a ...

There are some photographs that feel ordinary when they are taken, but become powerful years later. For Koushik Kharvi, one such photograph was sitting in his gallery until it resurfaced nine years ...

For centuries, neuroscientists have operated under a foundational assumption: The human brain is a single, contiguous organ. Anatomists have long believed that as an embryo develops, a single ...

A massive study using brain scans of 35,000 people showed that those in positions of great socioeconomic power exhibit measurable differences in the white-matter networks that help different regions ...

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors ...

There are some photographs that feel ordinary when they are taken, but become powerful years later. For Koushik Kharvi, one such photograph was sitting in his gallery until it resurfaced nine years ...

Washington, D.C.'s BAD BRAINS — one of the most important and influential bands to emerge from the American underground music scene — today announce the November 6 release of "Are You Ready: The First ...

Using their new knowledge, the researchers became the first to successfully coax human stem cells into becoming hindbrain motor nerve cells. Tryfonov / Adobe Stock The brain is an incredible organ, ...

Our brain may be a hybrid of two ancient nervous systems that were packaged together hundreds of millions of years ago. This is based on the finding that the front and back brain regions in people and ...

Legendary D.C. punks Bad Brains are issuing their long sought-after first demo tape. Recorded in 1979 at Arlington, Virginia’s Inner Ear Studios and newly remastered by Ian MacKaye, Are You Ready: The ...

Javelin wasn't Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage's first love. Instead it was cricket, especially fast bowling as the Sri Lankan dreamt of representing his country at the top level. Born in Kalutara, south of ...