Changes in the synapses between neurons is responsible for learning and memory. KTSDESIGN/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Your brain is responsible for controlling most of your body’s ...

The growing popularity of generative AI, which uses natural language to help users make sense of unstructured data, is forcing sweeping changes in how compute resources are designed and deployed. In a ...

Biology-inspired, silicon-based computing may boost AI efficiency; AMP2 instead uses AI to accelerate anaerobic biology.

Immunologists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have mapped the previously unknown biological machinery by which the immune system generates T cells that kill bacteria, viruses, and tumor cells ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 18, 2005 – If you crammed for tests by pulling 'all nighters' in school, ever wonder why your memory is now a bit foggy on what you learned? A University of Houston professor may have ...

An Italian research team has developed an optical control method that alters the structure of green fluorescent protein (GFP), which allows the fabrication of single-biomolecule optical toggle ...

Crystal meth (methamphetamine) is a highly addictive drug that seduces victims by increasing self-esteem and sexual pleasure, and inducing euphoria. But once hooked, addicts find the habit hard to ...

Researchers in Moscow have made advances to a device called a memristor, building one that works like a synapse in the human brain. “Memristor” means both memory and resistor, a term coined in 1971 ...