If you’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing endoscopy, you’ll think there must be a better way to check out your insides than having a camera shoved up your arse. Now there is, and it’s robotic! More »
This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn’t believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach. More »
That time you stuck a fork in the electric socket as a youngster? Not only were you learning a valuable lesson about pain, but you may have also been firing up your brain, according to new research. More »
Similar to the way an MRI brain scan can determine whether or not you’ll be good at video games, it can also tell you how successful you’ll be in your attempt to escape the death grip of big tobacco. More »
Right now, getting an MRI scan means you have be still—and alone—in a gigantic machine. Thanks to some clever researchers though, future MRI scanners might be double-headed—meaning that you can bring a buddy for simultaneous, cuddle-filled brain scans. More »
Berlin doctors have captured the first ever MRI images of a baby being born. It’s nice to know that the miracle of birth is just as disgustingly beautiful inside, as it is outside. More »
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I’m sure USC’s Speech Articulation group gained all sorts of important phonological insights from these videos of an opera singer and a beatboxer doing their respective things in an MRI machine. Here’s the insight I gained: tongues are gross. More »
