For most of the twentieth century, medical textbooks treated the aging brain like a one-way street: born with a fixed number of neurons, slowly losing them as the years tick by. That story was simple, a little fatalistic, and, as it turns out, deeply incomplete. Over the past few decades, scientists have been quietly ...
The human brain is often compared to a computer, but that metaphor falls apart the deeper you go, a bit like trying to describe a colossal squid as “just a big fish.” Hidden in the darkness of our skulls is a biological deep sea: billions of neurons flickering like bioluminescent creatures, forming patterns we ...
Somewhere behind your eyes, in a space smaller than a shoebox, sits a living network with an estimated storage capacity of 2.5 petabytes. That sounds like science fiction, yet neuroscientists are steadily uncovering just how absurdly efficient the human brain is at packing, compressing, and reshaping information. At a time when cloud storage farms ...
Picture waking up each morning and remembering not just what you did yesterday, but what you ate for breakfast on this exact date five years ago. Imagine recalling the weather, your conversations, even the clothes you wore on a random Tuesday from decades past. For most of us, this sounds like science fiction, yet for ...
Picture this: You’re having your morning coffee in Los Angeles when your phone buzzes with an alert that a magnitude 5.2 earthquake will hit in exactly 17 minutes. Sounds like science fiction? Well, this scenario might be closer to reality than you think. Scientists and tech companies around the world are developing artificial intelligence systems ...
