Researchers discover the SELK neuron, a single-cell decision-maker in fruit flies that weighs sweet vs. bitter signals to determine whether to eat or flee.

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial ...

For the fruit fly, a sense of taste is critical to whether it thrives or dies. The little winged creature has taste organs in ...

When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

Scientists placed 200,000 living human brain cells on a microchip and taught it how to play a doomsday video game — and are now using the dystopian tech to power AI data centers. Australian biotech ...

Scientists created an artificial neuron that operates at the same voltage as living cells and is able to communicate with the human brain.

Photonics is gaining momentum as a platform for high-speed AI computing. Researchers in Singapore have demonstrated a passive, ultrafast, and integration-ready all-optical nonlinear activation ...