Neurons have dominated neuroscience research for decades, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a group of ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have achieved a significant breakthrough by employing scatterometry, a technique ...

While the Milky Way has more stars than the brain has neurons, the manifold connections and interactions in the brain make it arguably more complex. Source: theartofsounds2001 | Pixabay The human ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Scientists at Linköping University have created a highly compact artificial neuron from conductive plastics that replicates ...

Scientists have known for years that a lattice of blood vessels nourishes cells in the retina that allow us to see – but it’s been a mystery how the intricate structure is created. Now, researchers at ...

Children with autism have different brains than children without autism, down to the structure and density of their neurons, according to a study by the University of Rochester Medical Center, New ...

Researchers have long believed that neurons rely on glucose nearly entirely for fuel. The brain’s enormous energy ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one ...