After years of trying, the electronic nose is finally making major progress in sensing smells, almost as well as its human ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

In the future, a new type of computer may be able to learn much like you do—by experience rather than endless repetition or ...

IBM has helped create an electronic “brain chip” after a decade of research. If all goes as planned, it could be one of the greatest inventions of the computing era, and this is not an understatement.

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses - the junctions between nerve cells - grow strong and large during ...

A team of physicists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Sogang University in South Korea have built an artificial synapse, the biological foundation of the human brain's ability to think ...

“Walking increases both blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, which is essential for maintaining optimal neurological ...

A new study has discovered a direct link between the number of milliseconds it takes a child’s brain to process the form of a ...