1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (603+ words) For more than a decade, the story of deep learning has been told largely in terms of depth. Each new generation of record-setting models has stacked more layers onto the previous one, and the word “deep” in deep learning has…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (82+ words) Scientists have identified a previously unknown genetic cause of chronic brain edema in children, tracing the disorder to a single faulty transporter protein that normally helps astrocytes manage acidity in the brain. The finding, published in Annals of Clinical and…...

4+ hour ago   (83+ words) Bitterness is often dismissed as a nuisance of the dinner plate, the flavor note that makes children push away Brussels sprouts and coffee drinkers reach for sugar. Yet for evolutionary biologists and physiologists, the ability to detect bitter compounds is…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (668+ words) The pathological proteins that accumulate in the aging human brain are not amorphous debris. They are highly ordered molecular assemblies, and their precise atomic architecture can determine which neurodegenerative disease a patient develops, how fast it progresses, and how it…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (71+ words) Every thought, movement, and memory depends on an almost unimaginably fast molecular event: the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the membrane of a neuron, releasing neurotransmitters across the synapse in a fraction of a millisecond. At the heart of this…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (710+ words) Within hours of drawing their first breath, newborn babies may already display one of the most quietly provocative differences in human psychology....

7+ hour, 28+ min ago   (688+ words) The complement system, a sprawling network of plasma and membrane-bound proteins long regarded as little more than a first-response killing machine against microbes, is now recognized as one of the most consequential players in neurology. A comprehensive new review published…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (777+ words) The human brain is one of nature’s most striking examples of form following physics....

8+ hour, 43+ min ago   (55+ words) Neuroscientists have unveiled a deep learning system that can automatically trace and quantify the tangled web of nerve fibers visible in one of the oldest and most stubborn stains in pathology: the Bielschowsky silver impregnation. The tool, called BasNet, was…...

8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (598+ words) For decades, neuroscientists have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: the equipment that lets them eavesdrop on the brain has too often prevented animals from behaving like themselves. Tethered recording systems, for all their fidelity, anchor a mouse to a cable, restricting…...