Looking back at the history of computers, it’s hard to overestimate the rate at which computing power has scaled in the course of just a single human lifetime. But yet, existing classical computers ...

Building a vast digital simulation of the brain could transform neuroscience and medicine and reveal new ways of making more powerful computers Reductionist biology—examining individual brain parts, ...

Where does electrical activity recorded on the surface of the brain come from, and what exactly determines which electrical signals get recorded? Using simulations run at the National Energy Research ...

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States ...

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A team of scientists from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Imperial College London has made a breakthrough in the visualisation of human brain tissue at the ...

Harnessing more than 82,000 processors on the world's fourth-ranked supercomputer, scientists run an experiment that represents 1 percent of human brain activity. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the ...

Researchers have made a decisive step towards being able to simulate brain-scale networks on future supercomputers of the exascale class. The breakthrough algorithm allows larger parts of the human ...

Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes -- the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity. In a new ...