Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new MIT study suggests astrocytes, once seen as support cells, may play a central role in memory storage and brain capacity.

Memory doesn’t live only in the brain. Scientists are uncovering signs that cells throughout the body can remember, too. These findings are starting to challenge old ideas about how and where memory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate professor Dong Song (L) and first author Xiwei She (R) discuss their machine learning model. (CREDIT: USC) Scientists ...

The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...

SpiNNaker 2 supercomputer operates without disks or an operating system for unmatched speed Sandia’s system uses 152 cores per chip to mimic the parallelism of the human brain With 138,240 terabytes ...

Discover 25 Memory Facts That Will Break Your Brain! Uncover how your mind stores, forgets, and even invents memories.

Study reveals sugar triggers memory storage in the brain, offering clues to stress-related eating and learning processes.

The study shows, for the first time in a realistic setting, the role of ripple-type brain waves in memory encoding and storage. A research team from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of ...

The discovery that the brains of humans and mice age in similar ways may one day help scientists understand the factors underlying brain changes during aging. This knowledge can then help researchers ...

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much information. A new study from MIT researchers suggests the answer may lie ...