The progression of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood, but new research may have found how the plaques that cause it ...
A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural ...
Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...
We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cells ...
Parents often overlook magnesium, a crucial mineral for children's brain function. This nutrient regulates emotions, aids ...
The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from trauma, stroke, or disease—they rarely grow back. Scientists have been ...
How can you use science to build a better gingerbread house?That was something Miranda Schwacke spent a lot of time thinking about. The MIT graduate ...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas.
State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, P. R. China Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine and Institute of Brain and ...
Astrocytes have a more active role in stabilizing memories than once thought. Astrocytes were thought to simply support neurons in creating the physical traces of memories in the brain, but the study ...
As we age, many of us experience subtle changes in our mental clarity—we can’t remember a name, we experience difficulty multitasking, or we forget where we left our keys. For decades, scientists have ...
In a recent breakthrough, engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created artificial neurons that operate like real ones—right down to their voltage. Using protein nanowires grown ...