Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming computational mechanics, yet many AI-driven models remain limited by poor interpretability, weak generalization, and insufficient physical ...

On-site at the ‘SF Future Sketch Workshop’ by Dong-A Science and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

What’s more, doing maths is often a collaborative endeavour – and can be a great source of fun and fulfilment when people ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

1 International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of ...