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Beautiful scientific drawings that changed how we understand the brain
Long before brain scans and neural networks, two scientists used chemistry and ink to uncover what the brain actually looks like. In the late 1800s, Italian scientist Camillo Golgi developed a ...
I often wake in the wee hours and now my teen is picking up my habits. But worrying about sleep is one of the worst things you can do ‘As a young child, I would scream for 20-minutes every evening ...
Preppy style, BMXs, “Napoleon Dynamite”: Eight things inspiring the rapper right now.
Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional ...
First, the scientists compared brain scans of expert and non-expert creatives (including tango dancers, musicians, visual artists, and strategy gamers) using a “brain clock” model, which spits out a ...
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