Still an undergraduate, Stanford-bound Betty Mbom has already started a minority-mentoring program at her university.

Roger Highfield recalls how he could not utter a nursery rhyme as part of his brain was turned off by a magnet.

A British team is to test a home "brain stimulation" method to short-circuit migraines before they become disabling, writes Roger Highfeld.

New strategy could reduce CO2 emissions from coal plants

One of the universe's most extreme objects just got a bit stranger