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THE SNP’s annual conference is set to run from Friday to Sunday in Edinburgh with a major focus on how the party moves forward following a huge…

In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing for the first time cases of a neurodegenerative disorder now known as Parkinson’s disease. Today, Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the U.S. It affects about 1 million Americans and…

The non-dog-eating, brain worm-surviving independent candidate dropped out of the race, sort of, but he was less of a joke to strategists

Your heart starts racing, your mouth goes dry and sweat beads on your forehead. We’ve all been there, caught in a moment of stress. When you encounter a situation that threatens your safety, your brain must make a critical decision – how to react to the danger at hand.

Once the remit of sci-fi and thought experiments, this is now actual reality.

Taking time away from our phones can help reset our minds.

Have you ever thought about why we have a brain? The obvious answer might be “to think”. But scientist Daniel Wolpert came up with a completely different explanation at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience:

One of bluegrass's most gifted guitarists, Tuttle checks in to discuss the evolution of her style, and why it pays to subvert received wisdom and practice flat-out as fast as you can go

Plastic is in our clothes, cars, mobile phones, water bottles and food containers. But recent research adds to growing concerns about the impact of tiny plastic fragments on our health.