Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

You only used a screwdriver once three years ago. Still, relying on that memory, you insert the screw into the hole, point side down, pick a Phillips screwdriver from the toolbox, grasp the handle ...

Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used ...

A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...