Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Lisa Dunlevy describes how acupuncture and the principles of Classical Chinese Medicine help parents keep calm and carry on.

Most neurons have cone- or star-shaped bodies with ... the area becomes active when a mother hears a crying baby, for instance, or when someone scrutinizes a face to determine the other person's ...

Scientists involved with the effort envision a stepladder approach, working up from roundworms (300 neurons), baby zebrafish and fruit flies (100,000 each) to mice (75 million) and monkeys (6 ...

Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.