Most of us know that the term "highbrow" refers to an intelligent person who is interested in learning, culture and art. That term is actually a holdover from phrenology, an early discipline of ...

Parents of brachycephalic infants who are concerned about their infant's head shape should be counseled and reassured that it is normal and that no treatment is necessary. Prevention measures should ...

You’ve heard of talking heads on TV. It turns out, they’re also under the sea. Beluga whales appear to communicate with each other by contorting their heads into various shapes, new research reveals.

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives. The elongated skull of a person who lived in the Colca Valley of highland ...

Shoei's 3D personal fitting system (PFS) captures the exact dimensions of your head and adapts the internal shape of the helmet to suit the unique contours of your head. But there's a catch – the ...

A surprising new analysis suggests that you may be able to roughly rank the intelligence and trainability of various dog breeds by simply looking at the shape of their heads. Back in the late 1800s ...

A new brain imaging study from the ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research group has revealed that age and brain shape affect how strongly olfactory brain regions are connected. The researchers used ...