Neuromorphic computing based on two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) has attracted significant attention recently due to their extraordinary properties generated by the ...

A team of researchers has discovered that a protein called cypin plays a powerful role in helping brain cells connect and ...

There are few scientific methods more elegantly simple than "just sprinkle it on top." Researchers at Tohoku University and ...

The vesicle cycle describes the steps through which neurotransmitters (chemical signals) are released at a synapse (a ...

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Young and his team first confirmed that the proteins play several key roles in ensuring that synaptic vesicles which contain ...

It's estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your ...

Cellular communication between neurons within our brain is complex and busy, much like a USPS mailroom.To keep things running ...

Scientists in the Columbia, Missouri, lab have studied the relationship between animals, toxic chemicals and ecosystems since the 1960s. Today, research of PFAS, invasive and endangered species ...