Smithsonian Magazine

We Use Many of the Same Brain Cells to See and to Imagine Objects, a Study Suggests. The Findings Provide a New Window Into Memory

While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

What if Your Memories Never Happened? Physicists Take a New Look at the Boltzmann Brain Paradox

The issue stems from a deeper conflict within statistical physics. A key principle used to explain why time appears to move ...

Novel brain architecture simulated for fast and flexible decision-making

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has proposed a new way of designing computer models of the brain—an approach that ...

Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Brain Technologies and SoftBank Launch Natural AI Phone in Japan

First large-scale deployment of an AI-native operating system goes on sale April 24 through SoftBank's nationwide retail network, with global expansion to follow later this year SAN MATEO, Calif., ...