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Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

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A brain cap and smart algorithms may one day help paralyzed patients turn thought into movement—no surgery required.

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

The Swoop portable MRI system showed 92% agreement with traditional MRI scans and was four times more likely to be chosen by ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...

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