Imagine walking into a doctor’s office at 45 and getting a single brain scan that tells you not just how old your brain is, but how quickly your entire body will age over the next decades. This isn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a ...

An experimental brain scan may be able to accurately predict a person’s risk of age-related disorders. Image credit: Rafe Swan/Getty Images. Some people appear to age more slowly than others. This is ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

A single, freely available, noninvasive brain scan done in just a few minutes during midlife can predict what chronic diseases are most likely to appear in the future, empowering people to make diet ...

In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the brain activity pulsing across millions of neurons. A few ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...