Skoltech scientists have devised a mathematical model of memory. By analyzing its new model, the team came to surprising ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May. The study looks ...

Memories of places "drift" across the brain as they are carried by different sets of neurons over time, a new study in mice suggests. Historically, neuroscientists thought that memories of locations ...

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"The combined amount of evidence implicates sleep in a bi-directional relationship with dementia, meaning that poor sleep ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. At a cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu places his phone on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son. They are words that the late student ...