Head binding to change the shape of a baby’s head is surely one of the most radical forms of socially imposed body modification. Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns ...

A 1,400-year-old human skull with an almost cube-like shape has emerged from the soil of central Mexico, offering an ...

A wireless, flexible, micro-LED array delivers patterned optogenetic stimulation through the skull to generate artificial perception in mice.

Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns that anthropologists call artificial cranial deformation. Because the most striking and best-known examples are found in South ...