The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early childhood and fixed afterward. A recently published study, however, overturned ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

It is always fascinating, and sometimes exhausting, when a debate or spirited discussion reaches the point where opinion, personal experience, or perception quietly crosses an invisible line and ...

Berlin, 10 February 2026 – Corruption is worsening globally, with even established democracies experiencing rising corruption amid a decline in leadership, according to Transparency International’s ...

Introduction: The onset of a sensory stimulus elicits transient bursts of activity in neural populations, which are presumed to convey information about the stimulus to downstream populations.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

Certain friendship red flags are universally understood. Most of us can quickly point to the flaky one, the perpetually late one, or the one-upper in our lives. Now there’s a new type of red flag ...

We present Perception-R1, a scalable RL framework using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) during MLLM post-training. Key innovations: 🎯 Perceptual Perplexity Analysis: We introduce a novel ...

Abstract: Achieving fully autonomous driving with enhanced safety and efficiency relies on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) cooperative perception (CP), which enables vehicles to share perception data, ...