Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for how astrocytes contribute to memory storage, helping to explain the brain's ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

Princeton Nobel Laureate in Physics John Hopfield and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999 were two of seven scientists and engineers awarded the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in ...

British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. Nobel laureates in physics Geoffrey Hinton ...

British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. Enjoy unlimited reading on ...

Professor Emeritus John Hopfield was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. He won the prize jointly with Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI), for their ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s ...