Ultrafast MRI uncovers brain signal direction: New scan may help decode autism, Alzheimer's and hallucinations

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have managed for the first time to identify with an imaging technique whether nerve impulses in the brains of rats are flowing in the “bottom up” (feedforward), carrying information about visual input, or in the “top down” (feedback) direction, carrying information about expectations or predictions on a given…

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More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign

More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are demanding that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior resigned, after his expulsion by the Director of Disease Control and Prevention Center and other works, he says “the health of the nation is compromising.” “Should they be rejected to resign,…

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Not all Democrats are ready to jettison big business

Moderate Democrats looking for their party to take back control of the U.S. House in November are offering an alternative to the economic populism message peddled by their more liberal counterparts. A new blueprint from the center-left New Democrat Coalition, shared exclusively with CNBC, lays out a road map for addressing affordability — top on…

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