Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two. As Alan Turing put it in 1952: “We are not interested in ...

Northwestern University researchers have taken a step toward bridging electronics and the human brain ...

When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called "criticality," this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning smoothly ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

Degradation of motor neurons, conceptual computer illustration. Motor neuron diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common of the motor ...