An artificial neuron has been developed that could help scientists to build compact, energy-efficient computers inspired by the human brain 1. Computing systems that mimic biological neural networks ...

The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our October read, turning to the winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize instead, serendipitously announced just in ...

Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a ...

Dive into the shallow seabed where octopuses use their environment — and their brains — to blend in and stay out of danger. Woman found dead in northern NSW home ‘Unseen’: Royal’s tribute to Aus ...

Our analyses of multimodal data from brain magnetic resonance imaging and body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in adults reveal that fat accumulation in specific body regions contributes to ...