Vinod Kumar Shukla, celebrated Hindi writer and Jnanpith winner, passes away at 88, leaving a profound literary legacy.

Air pollution should no longer be viewed as a temporary environmental inconvenience, but a serious long-term health emergency ...

As we age, our senses become less acute through changes in the organs themselves, as well as changes in the brain. An aging brain becomes less able to perceive sensations, process information, create ...

Imagine driving a car with a steering that doesn't respond instantly and a GPS that always reflects where you were a second ago. To stay on course, you must constantly infer how to steer the wheel ...

The five established senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each of these has specialist organs that send information to the brain about our environment. But over the years, many ...

The world's largest theater pipe organ can be found in a Franklin warehouse. The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he ...

Billions of years of evolution have supplied humans with five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. A new study analyzing memory engrams—networks of neurons across brain regions that work ...

As part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s organ transplant system, the US Department of Health and Human Services says it is moving to decertify a major organ procurement organization – ...

Some biohackers dream of a future where organ transplants help humans achieve immortality. But scientists say there are still major hurdles—for one, we can't yet transplant the human brain. A kidney ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - 4,000 people are still waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in North Carolina alone. One man who recently died in our area is able to help at least three of those people ...

More than 5,000 people have removed themselves from California's organ donor registry as part of an escalating national shift in the wake of federal scrutiny and reporting by the New York Times, ...