In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most ...

For example, keeping hold of a hot object requires a nerve impulse to be sent to the motor neuron of the reflex arc to interfere with the normal reflex action to drop the object.

Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the ... The body contains various types of nerve cells, including graded neurons that encode information through ...