What causes brain freeze, this miserable spoiler of frozen desserts? The answer is simple: survival instinct. When humans eat something very cold, blood vessels in the roof of the mouth (also known as ...

Take the “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” burger, for instance. It’s a nod to the classic line from “Night of the Living ...

A mother of two who dismissed her twitchy eye as a sign of stress was shocked to discover it was actually due to rare type of brain tumour ... the growth has left her face partially paralysed ...

Pensacola residents dove into winter activities Wednesday like true northerners, ranging from elaborate snow sculptures to ...

As temperatures plummet and winter serves a cocktail of harsh weather conditions, outdoor workers face unique challenges that amplify ... This can diminish the body's ability to sense thirst, as the ...

Survivors and witnesses of gun violence often freeze emotionally at first, as a coping mechanism. As the one-year mark since ...

The decision last week to freeze our government’s healthcare agencies ... Last year, NIH funding went to a brain-computer interface that allowed a man paralyzed with ALS speak to his family.

Elon Musk’s DOGE, which now has access to Bureau of Fiscal Service under the US Treasury, could potentially ‘undermine’ the ...

Once a corpse arrives, its blood is drained and replaced with antifreeze, in an effort to prevent tissue damage and ice crystals forming during the deep freeze ... defrosts its brain, and installs ...

Jennifer Love Hewitt was the latest guest on Mayim Bialik’s “Breakdown” podcast (via US Weekly) and recalled how it wasn’t until she was in her thirties that she registered just how much the media ...

Breath-holding itself activates the fight/flight/freeze ... face in ice water is one of them, and it has long been used medically—can activate the nerve at points along its winding pathway from ...