Study of marine snail leads to new insights into long-term memory
June 24th, 2008
UCLA cellular neuroscientists are providing new insights into the mechanisms that underlie long-term memory — research with the potential to treat long-term memory disorders. “The more we know about how long-term memory is induced in the brain and how our ...
World-Record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms
June 17th, 2008
Welcome to the new frontier of research at Los Alamos: science at the petascale. The prefix “peta” stands for a million billion, also known as a quadrillion. For the Roadrunner supercomputer, operating at petaflop/s performance means the machine can ...
Multicellular Response Is ‘All For One’
June 8th, 2008
Real or perceived threats can trigger the well-known “fight or flight response” in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual’s heart pumps faster, the muscles work harder, the brain sharpens and non-essential systems shut down. The ...
