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A team of researchers at Cornell University has made a discovery in fruit flies that could change the way we understand brain ...

Rachel Wolfson, assistant professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, began studying ...

Concerns about AI's energy use have a lot of people looking into ways to cut down on its power requirements. Many of these ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.