In the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, characters can save their consciousness to a hard drive so that their personalities will live on inside a machine. When the novel was ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for ...

Scientists Wednesday unveiled a functional 3-D map of the 84,000 neurons in a cubic millimeter of a mouse's brain, along with more than three miles of microscopic wiring — axons and smaller dendrites ...

The Open Brain Institute launches as a not-for-profit organization to make the 18-million-line software recipe to build and simulate mammalian digital brains developed in the Blue Brain Project openly ...

Unravelling how the billions of interacting neurons in the human brain conjure consciousness is one of the greatest challenges in twenty-first-century science. Over the past decade, large, well-funded ...

There’s a science to creativity, which is a good thing for me, because I never considered myself a very creative person. I’m a neuroscientist, raised in a family of accountants and engineers.

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