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New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table

A new study describes a method for faster and more precise diagnoses, which can help surgeons decide how aggressively to…

World

The Most Important Eight Hours of Your Day? They Weren’t Always.

Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight…

Health

Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds

Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was…

Sports

Without Updated Tools, N.F.L. Is Still Finding Concussions Too Late

Despite nearly 30 medical professionals on hand for every N.F.L. game, more subtle symptoms of concussions can be missed, and…

Sports

Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does?

More and more pro and college athletes are trying on the Q-Collar as they search for something, anything, that might…

Health

Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if…

Health

Elon Musk Hopes to Test a Brain Implant in Humans Next Year

The tech multibillionaire said his company, Neuralink, was seeking government approval to test his device in people, and predicted it…

World

How Reading — Not Scanning, Not Scrolling — Opens Your Mind

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles,…

Sports

A Test for C.T.E. in the Living May Be Closer Than Ever

SHICKLEY, Neb. — Chris Eitzmann seemed to excel at everything until he didn’t. He parlayed a Harvard football captaincy into…

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