SEE SOME OF THE YEAR'S BEST IMAGES FROM NEUROSCIENCE

Take a look at some of the amazing neuroscience images out of the Queensland Brain Institute this year... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS TUNE INTO BRAIN TO UNCOVER MUSIC'S HEALING POWER

Stroke survivors who can't speak sometimes can sing, and music therapy can help them retrain brain pathways to communicate... READ MORE›

STANFORD SCIENTISTS TO LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED AS THEY PROBE VEGAS SHOOTER'S BRAIN

Experts say the brain study on Paddock will be a worthy effort for scientific reasons... READ MORE›

SHREWS' ABILITY TO SHRINK BRAIN FOR WINTER DESCRIBED FOR THE FIRST TIME

Individual shrews shrank their braincase by 15 percent on average, and up to 20 percent, from summer to winter... READ MORE›

DELIVER POLITICAL LEAFLETS TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH AND THE COUNTRY

Letters Forget the gym, says Geoff Read - getting out and delivering leaflets for your local party has multiple health benefits... READ MORE›

100 WOMEN: CAN WE WIRE OUR BRAINS FOR CONFIDENCE?

When we choose confidence, we are rewiring our brains and are able to change ourselves for the better, says neuroscientist Dr Stacie Grossman Bloom... READ MORE›

BODY FOUND IN BRISTOL MOTHER AND BABY SEARCH

Avon and Somerset police said Ms Bevan's family had been informed... READ MORE›

Related Stories A senior Google vice president, Alan Eustace, has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump set in 2012 by Austrian Felix Baumgartner... READ MORE›

HOW PANIC ATTACKS AND STRESS FORCED A BILLIONAIRE TO DISAPPEAR

They later sold off their stock in Shanda Games and Chen resigned from its board... READ MORE›

MEDIEVAL CITY 'DETECTED' WITH NO DIG

The latest scanning techniques were used to uncover a network of buildings at the 11th Century Old Sarum near Salisbury, Wiltshire... READ MORE›

OTTO WARMBIER SUFFERED BRAIN DAMAGE IN N KOREA

Otto Warmbier, 22, has been in a coma since March 2016, shortly after he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in North Korea, according to his family... READ MORE›

HOTEL BAD REVIEW 'FINE' SCRAPPED

However, Blackpool Trading Standards said its officers had now spoken to the hotel's management team, who have agreed not to levy these fines in the future... READ MORE›

ARCTIC BLAST HITS CANADA AND US

The National Weather Service said the snow should begin to ease on Wednesday... READ MORE›

MICHAEL J. FOX: HOW TO HONOR MUHAMMAD ALI

Ali walks through the streets of New York with members of the Black Panther Party in September 1970... READ MORE›

MAN ADMITS KILLING BOY HE MET ONLINE

Breck bednar stabbing lewis daynes admits schoolboy's murder... READ MORE›

US REPORTER CHARGED BY IRAN COURT

Washington post reporter jason rezaian charged by iran court... READ MORE›

DRAX AND INTERGEN HIT WITH ?39M OFGEM PENALTIES

Related Stories Two power generation companies are to pay penalties totalling 39m after failing to meet energy saving targets for low-income households... READ MORE›

IS SETTING UP LIBYA CAMPS, US SAYS

Libya after Gaddafi Islamic State militants have set up training camps in eastern Libya, the head of the US Africa command says... READ MORE›

FRECKLETON VICAR AND DAUGHTER HELD OVER NEWBORN BABY MURDER

A Lancashire Constabulary spokesman said inquiries had led police to treat the baby's death as suspicious... READ MORE›

Austin Brady, of the Woodland Trust, said such woodlands were irreplaceable, adding that "turning this into a hole in the ground is bad for everybody"... READ MORE›

THIS STARTUP USES MINI CAMERAS TO TRACK ANIMALS' BRAIN ACTIVITY

Kunal Ghosh, Inscopix's co-founder and chief executive officer, hopes to quickly expand beyond mouse and bird brains... READ MORE›

NEW YORK EBOLA DOCTOR 'VIRUS FREE'

International business times uk ebola outbreak us free of virus after new york doctor craig spencer cleared 4 hrs ago... READ MORE›

CURE FOR CHRONIC PAIN FOUND: WORLD FIRST AS PATIENT FITTED WITH PERMANENT SPINAL CORD IMPLANT

Dr Charles Brooker the specialist who fitted the implant said it was a big advance because the device could record signals emerging from the nervous system... READ MORE›

ALZHEIMER'S: ULTRASOUND SAFELY DELIVERS DRUGS TO DAMAGED BRAINS OF MICE

Scientists at Queensland Brain Institute find noninvasive technique slows progression of Alzheimer's disease in mice... READ MORE›

SILENCE TO MARK FATAL AIR CRASH

Earlier in the day, a service was held at Glasgow Cathedral... READ MORE›

BENAUD BEING TREATED FOR SKIN CANCER

Related Stories Former Australia cricket captain and legendary commentator Richie Benaud has revealed he is undergoing radiation therapy for skin cancer... READ MORE›

BLUE MOON: YOU CAPTURE A RARE EVENT

Sam Roots took this picture of the blue moon in Oxfordshire... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA SCIENTISTS DEVELOP 'BIONIC SPINE' WHICH COULD HELP PARALYSED PATIENTS WALK

Device can be inserted in the brain ndash without brain surgery ndash and could allow paralysed patients to operate robotic limbs ldquo using thought alone rdquo... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH ELECTRICITY RESTORED AFTER MAJOR BLACKOUT

The high-voltage transmission line runs from Baharampur in West Bengal, India, to Bheramara in Kushtia district, in south-west Bangladesh... READ MORE›

FIVE LIFESTYLE FACTORS ARE KEY TO CUTTING RISK OF DEMENTIA, SAYS CHARITY

Age UK says exercise and diet help lessen Alzheimers risk and healthy activities may cut threat of dementia by 36 percent... READ MORE›

A 28-year-old man who was shot in west Belfast has died in hospital... READ MORE›

DEVON WOMAN DIES IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE DIVING INCIDENT

Paramedics were called to the National Diving and Activity Centre at Tidenham in the Forest of Dean on Saturday... READ MORE›

FATHER AND SON KILLED IN PENISTONE HOUSE FIRE

Darren Sykes, 44, and his son Paul were found in the property in Penistone, near Barnsley, on Wednesday evening... READ MORE›

'WHO WILL CONTROL MERGED HUMAN-AI DIGITAL SPACE?' SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON MUSK'S BRAIN IMPLANT VENTURE

'Who will control merged human-AI digital space?' Slavoj Zizek on Musk's brain implant venture -- RT News... READ MORE›

CELTIC FIRE FESTIVAL SEES IN WINTER

Samhuinn fire festival in edinburgh marks start of winter... READ MORE›

'ARSON' LEAVES 'MOTHER AND SON' CRITICAL

The rescued woman was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and the boy to Birmingham Children's Hospital... READ MORE›