The significance of the Golden Boot has seemingly increased with each passing World Cup. It wasn’t until 1982 that the tournament’s top goalscorer was officially recognized by FIFA with a physical ...

Our unusually large brains are one of the defining features of our species. But there is no evidence that evolution strongly favoured big brains in the past 2 million years of human evolution, ...

Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months – give or take – some 100 billion neurons have sprung from a single 3 millimetre “neural tube” in ...

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It was personal when Pat Schultz enrolled her German shepherd-poodle mix in the Dog Aging Project. Her husband was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time, and the project her dog was participating in ...