Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have achieved an important breakthrough in brain research. The ...

Researchers have come up with a clever new way of freezing brain cells just as they fire out a signal, meaning processes that normally happen too quickly to observe can be studied in detail – and ...

Summertime means water ice, popsicles – and ice-cream headaches. Also popularly known as brain freeze, and by the more clinical phrase cold-stimulus headache, the phenomenon is familiar to many of us.

Nothing’s quite as refreshing as a slushie or ice cream cone on a hot, humid day. But these frozen treats can sometimes trigger "brain freeze" — a sharp headache and intense mouth pain. We wanted to ...

The rising pressure on scientists under the Trump administration is upending the U.S. reputation as a beacon of scientific inquiry. President Donald Trump’s deep cuts in federal research funding and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Have you ever been enjoying an ice-cold drink on a hot summer day when your brain says: “That’s a bad idea, this is too cold”? If so, you’re not alone. The medical term for this ...

Rick Perry's brain froze on national TV. He was trying to remember the third federal department he would cut and he completely failed. He knew the answer, struggled mightily to remember it, but ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other ...