Wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking challenged athletes to "look to the stars" on Wednesday as he helped open a record-setting Paralympics Games that will run for 11 days in near sold-out venues.
Indulge in physiological and psychological exercises that challenge your brain and help it function optimally.
A cognitive neuroscientist wants to put a specific mind into a robot.
Dr Tara Thiagarajan is the chairperson and managing director of the Rs 200-crore (Rs 2 billion) Madura Micro Finance Ltd. She is also the director of Microcredit Foundation of India.
A typical drug user's transition to addiction could result from a persistent impairment of synaptic plasticity (the ability of the connection between two neurons to change in strength) in a key structure of the brain, suggests a new French study.
Celebrated Cambridge-based scientist Stephen Hawking has said a belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people who are afraid of death.
What people of Kashmir need is not freedom from India but an enlightenment that clears their cloudy perception and releases them from the clutches of terrorism, religious fundamentalism and unscrupulous politicians making them law abiding citizens of a democratic, secular and economically resurgent nation: a win-win situation.
Neuroscientists have located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain, a development that will facilitate better understanding and treatment for human phobias and anxiety disorders.
Let the kids just idle out their time. Their minds are always working. Let that mind develop naturally, says Dr Himani Kulkarni.
The private funeral service at the University Church of St Mary the Great near Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University was chosen by Professor Hawking's children.
Hawking is backing a 75-million movement to establish postgraduate centres for advanced maths and physics in Africa. The project has the support of leading entrepreneurs and scientists, according to a report in The Sunday Times.
Researchers have discovered that the human nervous system has its 'unit burst generator' to control rhythmic movements such as walking, a breakthrough which they claim could soon lead to treatments for spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. The researchers targeted the segmented leech for their study as they have fewer and larger neurons, making them easier to analyse.
According to the New Scientist, a team at Reading University, which has already used rat brain cells to steer a simple-wheeled robot, is now trying the same thing with human brain cells. In fact, for the robot with rat brain cells, 300,000 rodent neurons grown in a nutrient broth and producing spikes of electrical activity were connected to output of the robot's distance sensors. The neurons proved capable of steering the robot around a small enclosure.
Researchers can finally explain why we experience those feelings of deja-vu.
A team led by Kolkata-born scientists has discovered a special sweet spot in the eye plays a crucial role in humans being able to to focus on computer screens and also read, an ability which is unique to Homo sapiens.
Ben Stokes, who played a few memorable knocks this year, especially at the ICC World Cup final and then powering England to victory at Headingley in the Ashes, beat Lewis Hamilton, Raheem Sterling among others to win the coveted crown.
The winning photos of this year's Nikon annual Small World Photomicrography Competition.
The British government on Tuesday granted the creator of "Dolly the sheep" licence to clone human embryos for research into Motor Neurone Disease, which affects the nervous system.
Her manager Lisa Chaffey said the Australian has been forced to take a break due to a persistent virus that is affecting her balance.
Alicia Molik has pulled out of the Grand Slam due to an inner-ear infection.
Arsenal teenager Bukayo Saka scored his first goal for the club as they beat 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0, while Manchester United's 17-year-old Mason Greenwood secured a 1-0 win over FC Astana as the Europa League group stage began on Thursday.
Physicist Stephen Hawking to trademark his name.
'The COVID-19 virus has the power to quietly enter your body, without causing pain via symptoms, because it craftily manipulates your pain response.'
Researchers have found that the smell of food could play an important role in how the body processes calories.
Shameem Akthar, yogacharya trained in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, poses five questions which will unravel this marvellous part of our body, and relate to the idea of its health in a proactive way.
Donald Trump 'is a demagogue', says one of the world's top scientists Stephen Hawking.
Kepler-90i -- a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days -- was found using machine learning from Google to scour data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope.
The winning photos this year in Nikon's annual Small World Photomicrography Competition offer an up-close look at our world's microscopic realm -- things that can't be seen with the naked eye.
'If our body is able to mount a very successful immune response, we can negate the virus.'
Scientists, including one of Indian origin, are developing a computer chip that mimics the human brain.
Did you know that you can get a tax benefit of up to Rs 50,000 under a health insurance policy?
Vaccination against measles has been declining steadily over the last ten years in India. This must be reversed in order to avoid a serious outbreak of the disease, says Phalasha Nagpal.
'There are different reasons for brain involvement depending on how the virus has entered the body.' 'If the virus enters the brain from the nose, the impairment will be different as opposed to if the virus impairs other organs which in turn impair the brain.' 'If it affects the lungs or heart, there can still be brain changes from secondary effects of reduction in oxygen delivery, or reduction in blood supply to the brain.'
Humans are hardwired to fall out of love and move on to new romantic relationships, according to a new study.
'Everybody says 5G and communication is important.' 'Everybody says automation, robotics, human computing interfaces -- people and machines working together -- is the future.' 'Everybody agrees that cybersecurity is something that is here to stay.' 'Everybody agrees that synthetic biology is important.' 'Instead of outlining thinking about industries for tomorrow and the future, let the evolutionary pathway be built in a way that it promotes robust, creative, thinking.'
He said India has a rich tradition and a long history of both discovery and use of science and technology.
For the first time, a Google computer programme has beaten a human champion of the 2,500-year-old complex Chinese game of Go, in an event seen as a milestone for artificial intelligence.
The many reasons why the famed scientist was a minor celebrity in Hollywood.
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