Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the ...

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We like to think we see the world clearly. But neuroscience tells a different story. Reality isn’t something you witness. It’s something your brain assembles on the fly. Your thoughts, memories, even ...

Every time you master a new recipe, remember a phone number, or finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, your brain is learning. But new research shows that the brain learns in a more complex ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More A recent study found that the strategies large language ...

The team’s advance changes this. “Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao. With this low-voltage design, the artificial neurons could integrate not ...

Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain. In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice ...

I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor. I ...