We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

Shreyas Sen is the Founder and CTO of Quasistatics, Inc. (dba Ixana), which develops Wi-R, a wireless body-area communication technology. He owns shares in the company. How do headphones, toys, ...

Structurally, they look similar: MNK1 and MNK2 belong to the same enzyme family and are best known for regulating how cells make proteins. Their starring role in such a crucial cellular function has ...

Razer has launched a web-based beta version of its Synapse software, allowing users to customize gaming peripherals directly through their browser without installing local software. PCWorld reports ...

Razer Synapse is getting a web-based version so you can adjust peripheral settings on the go without having to install any software. Razer is launching the new software with compatibility for several ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have created a powerful glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, that can capture the faint incoming messages between neurons, ...

Explore how neuromorphic chips and brain-inspired computing bring low-power, efficient intelligence to edge AI, robotics, and IoT through spiking neural networks and next-gen processors. Pixabay, ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to ...

A research team led by Dr. Àlex Bayés, Head of the Molecular Physiology of the Synapse Group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau), has achieved what for decades had been an elusive goal: ...

Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed ...