Magnets can be used for much more than attaching a photo to your fridge – someday they may be used to treat brain cancer. Scientists have been able to guide microscopic magnetic particles coated with ...

Whereas optogenetics, which controls neurons with light, and electrical deep brain stimulation, used to treat Parkinson’s disease, both require the implantation of invasive electrodes into the brain, ...

University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumours. It’s invasive, ...

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Demetrius Lopes snaked a thin wire with a tiny magnet on its tip into an artery in Paul Kelsey's groin and threaded it all the way up into his brain. Aided by a helmet-shaped magnet ...

In a breakthrough for brain-inspired computing, researchers from London have utilized chiral magnets as a computational medium. This pioneering method involves adapting the material's physical ...

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of a scientific collaboration, have created nanoactuators to transport ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...