Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have discovered a new way that neurons ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that neurons act in neurodegeneration by using human neural organoids -- also known as 'mini-brain' models -- from patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

A tiny soft robot powered by magnets may soon crawl through rubble or the body, blending flexible electronics with smooth motion.

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...

In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we ...

A flexible, semi-autonomous robot could potentially locate disaster victims trapped under rubble and deliver medication within the human body. A small, soft, and flexible robot capable of crawling ...

The thought of a disgruntled miniature human (read:any children under five) combined with many hours on a plane or in a car, or a few nights away from their all-time favourite place – that’d be their ...