How does imagination really work in the brain? New theory upends what we knew

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...
Smithsonian Magazine

We Use Many of the Same Brain Cells to See and to Imagine Objects, a Study Suggests. The Findings Provide a New Window Into Memory

While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...
Nature

Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells

Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Mini Brain-like Structures Grown in Lab May Help Scientists Treat, Diagnose and Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients ...
InfoWorld

Google’s Gemma 4 shines on local systems – both big and small

We tried out Google’s new family of multi-modal models with variants compact enough to work on local devices. They work well.

Tech News

Okay, we kind of understand that not everyone out there is an iPod fanboy like us. Some people would actually prefer buying a different portable media player. Fine, we will cave and help you non-Apple ...