Erupting Neurons by Ammar Natalwala Ammar Natalwala, the scientist behind this submission, likens the thin, fiery orange lines punctuating a textured black surface in this image to an active volcano.

Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D. Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D., professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry was ...

Arts Week: The Life Cycle Of A Neuron : Short Wave An exhibit that blended science and technology for an immersive art experience went on display in Washington, DC and New York City in 2021 and ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game ...

Researchers mapped all 139,255 neurons in the brain of an adult fruit fly, which are linked by more than 50 million synapses. Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University, (Dorkenwald, S. et al ...

Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version of the classic computer game Pong.. In doing so, the cells join a growing ...

In 19th-century Spain, a young boy who wished only to become an artistwas met by disapproval from his parents, who urged him to pursue a more practical career in medicine. Ultimately, he attended ...

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

Researchers have also mapped 25,000 neurons and 20 million synapses in the brain of an adult fruit fly, but this is still just a partial connectome, per Live Science’s Nicoletta Lanese.

The majority of brain cells are neurons, while some cells have other functions. But the exact number of neuron types is unknown, although recent research in human brains has identified at least ...

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