Like AI, cells change and learn from experience, while unlike computer chips they arrive naturally preprogrammed ...

Just Curious: Your everyday questions, answered What is a cell? All living things are made of cells; they are the basic unit of life. They provide structure and are the up bodies, organs and ...

Modern brain science as we know it began with the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, whose creative thought sprang from memories of a childhood spent in the preindustrial Spanish countryside ...

THE preface sufficiently indicates the design of the book, and the accompanying text throughout bears testimony to the realisation of that design. The authors are to be congratulated on being able ...

A molecular “recycling plant” permits nerve cells in the brain to carry out two seemingly contradictory functions – changeable enough to record new experiences, yet permanent enough to ...

The kilogram, the basic unit of mass, is now defined by a quantum quantity known as the Planck constant. That value, an immutable constant of nature, is the same everywhere in space and time.

These Basic Units of Measurement Could Change in 2018. Don't worry, you probably won't even notice. By David Grossman Published: Oct 20, 2017 9:00 AM EDT. Save Article. Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST PML.