Restoring Muscles by Stimulating the Brain.

Restoring Muscles by Stimulating the Brain.

Elisa Kallioniemi slides a circular disk over her head, stops above her right ear and clicks. Her left hand jumps. She moves it a couple of inches back, clicks again, and is suddenly speechless, mid-sentence. With a single pulse of electromagnetic energy, her device...

Tracking Firearm Violence and Impact on Dental Health.

Higher firearm violence in neighborhoods is linked to lower rates of people going to the dentist and higher rates of total tooth loss, known as edentulism, according to Rutgers researchers. Their study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, used...

Scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see.

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and functional systems of mammalian perception. To date, it is the largest and...