There are lots of situations where getting a look at the human brain can be very helpful. Unfortunately, our heads are ...

Light typically only reaches the outermost layers of the brain, about 40 mm deep—enough to study the surface of the brain, but not deeper regions involved in critical functions like memory, emotion, ...

To test the limits, the researchers started by firing a powerful, ultrafast laser into the side of a volunteer’s head. The ...

Hair can be curly, straight, thick, thin, brown, black, blonde, or auburn. It can be long or short, frizzy or lush. While the huge diversity in our genes and environments makes it a no-brainer ...

To better understand how hair affected the temperature of the head, Lasisi and her colleagues placed three different wigs or no wig on a research manikin, called a “thermal manikin.” ...