Some of the most important moments in your life live only in a thin strip of biological tissue, folded inside your skull. A first kiss, a hospital corridor, the smell of your grandparents’ house – none of these exist anywhere except in the changing connections between billions of neurons. For decades, scientists could describe ...
Try to recall what you had for lunch two Tuesdays ago. For most people, that simple question hits a strange, slightly unsettling wall of blankness. We carry our memories as if they are a personal archive, yet they blur, warp, and vanish in ways that can feel random or even unfair. Neuroscientists, however, are ...
For years neuroscientists have focused on the brain’s neurons as its principal creators of memory and thought. But what if the reason for our cognitive abilities isn’t in the electrical activity of neurons, but in the quiet, star-shaped cells that connect them? A new research published in PNAS on May 20, 2025, suggests the astrocytes ...
