Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Jean Milne is one of 44 patients to receive a letter from NHS Tayside saying sorry for not properly alerting them to the risks when they were given a new metal jaw prosthetic made by the health board.

Every major Star Trek series has pulled this classic move, from The Original Series to Deep Space Nine to Starfleet Academy.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and a growing number of rivals are all fighting to become the leading player in the nescient but potentially lucrative market for brain implants. Morgan Stanley analysts estimate ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

The axolotl looks like something from another planet, but it lives in the lakes of Mexico. Unlike most amphibians, it never completes its transformation into adulthood and remains in a juvenile state ...

Brain teasers are more than just casual entertainment. These puzzles offer you a mental workout while you spend your leisure time. Moreover, these puzzles are backed by science and researchers.

The company developing brain-computer interfaces is spending $8.2 million to expand its facilities in Del Valle and recruiting for a slew of roles in its software, engineer and brain interfaces teams.

It's a question that's been debated and debunked for decades: Are aliens real? The word "alien" can create mental images of different creatures in people's heads thanks to Hollywood − gentle and ...

Former president Barack Obama this weekend appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said in a podcast released Saturday.

When Ian Burkhart was just 19 years old, he lost the ability to move below his elbows after a diving accident. Three years later, he came across a clinical trial that would begin in 2013 and could ...