Back when the Covid lockdowns started, I told a Southern Baptist friend that this crisis was going to be devastating for the churches, which would probably see a lot of people in their congregations ...

Even if you’re a connoisseur of strange movies, The Curious Dr. Humpp will still be one of the strangest you’ll ever see. It started out as an early-1960s Argentinian brain-in-a-jar flick about a mad ...

JAMES MADISON: THE NATIONALIST (484 pp.) — Irving Brant — Bobbs-Merrill ($6). In March 1780, small, shy James Madison Jr. rode from Virginia to Philadelphia in a two-wheeled chaise to take his seat in ...

Anil Ananthaswamy asks “What if… we don’t need bodies?” (8 August, p 28). If my mind could be accurately simulated on a computer, my simulated self would be very annoyed if its ability to do ...

Although other groups have managed to keep disembodied brainstems and hearts of rodents alive, the current project is noteworthy for the scale of the brain being preserved, and its apparent success.

There is something very unnerving about seeing a living creature without a head. But, in 1940s America, people could not get enough of it. Miracle Mike, the headless chicken, was a national sensation ...