For years neuroscientists have focused on the brain’s neurons as its principal creators of memory and thought. But what if ...

We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the “Murderbot” ...

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism. When the time is right, worms gather together to create a wriggling mass, a tower of worm-ness. No, really. They climb onto each other until their bodies ...

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've ...

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the ...

Zombie cinema thrives on budget constraints. Strip away the CGI and blockbuster gloss, and you're left with the true spirit ...

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s ...

They rarely cause lesions in the white matter, a deeper tissue containing nerve fibers that transmit signals between different parts of the brain. In her case, the worms appeared to be directly ...

That was all my host. I, the brain worm that died inside his skull in 2010, had no part in it. “Isn’t picking up a dead bear cub and bringing it along in your car, ‘Weekend at Bearnie’s ...

“Maybe a brain worm ate that part of my memory, but I don’t recall any part of the United States constitution where there is any exemption for pandemics,” he quipped. Breaking News Intern Robert ...

Can I get a “brain worm” from eating undercooked ... living in the U.S., these types of migratory worms stay mainly in the realm of science fiction. We may worry about ticks when we go hiking ...