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A gelatin memristor with 16 stable conductance states mimics biological pain perception, rating intensity, sensitizing after ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps and ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Aran Nayebi jokes that his robot vacuum has a bigger brain than his two cats. But while the vacuum can only follow a preset ...

Most of our experiences are multisensory, and involve lesser-known senses like proprioception and interoception.