Post-laminectomy syndrome (PLS) is lingering pain of unknown origin after spinal surgery, affecting about 20% of people who undergo a laminectomy. The exact cause is unknown, but it may happen because ...

‘We’re creating alien beings … and the reality is we only have a couple of years to adapt to that’ … computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto, Ontario. Photograph: Cole Burston/The Guardian The ...

Dozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of ‘mass hysteria’? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who is ...

In “The Havana Syndrome,” Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados make the case that a mysterious Russian weapon has been used to target American intelligence agents. By Nicolas Niarchos Nicolas ...