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Scientists Successfully Use String Theory to Challenge More Than a Century of Assumptions About Living Systems

Christopher Plain·February 17, 2026

Scientists successfully borrow concepts from string theory to explain the network architecture of branching biological systems like neurons

Christopher Plain·November 3, 2025

Scientists have built a prototype neuromorphic computer that thinks like a human brain and is faster than AI at learning new things.

Ryan Whalen·September 16, 2025

New research into how the brain processes illusions has bombarded mouse neurons with lasers, artificially reproducing the brain activity.

Scientists studying Longhorn Crazy Ants witnessed a 'supercolony' perform several seemingly impossible feats of swarm intelligence.

Ryan Whalen·May 16, 2025

Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to human evolution.

Micah Hanks·May 16, 2024

A team of Harvard and Google researchers have created the most detailed map of the human brain ever rendered.

Christopher Plain·October 12, 2022

A team of Australian researchers says they have taught a Petri dish filled with human and mouse brain cells to play the classic 1970s video game Pong