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Corey Wilkinson was 19 when his life changed forever following a routine procedure

Gary Lineker has had quite the week. Let’s deal first with the claims that the much-loved commentator should be sacked because, as his critics say, he has broken BBC impartiality rules and angered licence-fee payers because he expressed his views on political matters. Arguments in his defence are clear to…

Jay Bridgehouse was left in a critical condition after the crash

The lawn replacement – largely fallen out of favor in professional sports these days – contains large amounts of toxic chemicals

Elaine Beattie was just 17 when her older sister Maria Jayne died of a brain tumour and now 49 is going through the same journey with teenage daughter Ellie.

She had headaches while she was having chemo for bowel cancer

"We are in the depths of despair, looking at him and thinking 'there is no way that's our Jay'."

Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

A new artificial intelligence program can reconstruct images based on people's brain waves.

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge mapped the connectome of a baby fruit fly, revealing its neural network.

The achievement brings experts closer to true understanding of the mechanism of thought, researchers say.