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There are currently several ongoing initiatives that aim to map the synapse connections in the human brain, operating under the assumption that cataloging those signals could allow one to emulate the ...

When looking at the most complex machine known to man, the brain, in the end, it’s nothing more than a collection of electrical signals. This means that, if we can accurately catalog those signals, ...

Credit – MIT News / Lordos et al. Building with LEGOs is a favored pastime for many small children and adults. But, as The LEGO Movie points out, they constitute “a highly sophisticated interlocking ...

Scientists have created a robot that "thinks" and acts like a worm after inserting software modeled on the neural connections in a worm's brain inside a Lego robot. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.