Head growth of the fetus and infant is largely determined by brain growth. The brain reaches 90% of adult size by 1 year of age; it is 95% of its ultimate adult size by 6 years of age and growth is ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in western Iran have discovered a severely deformed human skull that appears to be the result of a culture that used bandages to slim down the head. A ...

A 22-year-old's life was saved after neurosurgeons replaced a huge portion of her skull with an exact 3D printed copy of it. The woman suffered a rare disease that made her skull thicken and placed ...

The skull of a saint was placed in front of the altar at St. John’s Catholic Church on the Creighton University campus on Tuesday. Joseph Bettag, a second-year medical student at Creighton University, ...

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric to permanently reshape the skull in infancy and ...

When a Dutch woman with a rare condition needed a new skull, surgeons 3D-printed one for her and put it on her brain like a cap. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of ...