Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state ... biological synapses," says Sort. In the brain, the connections between neurons, the ...

Previously, “both physicists and neuroscientists have largely dismissed the relevance of standard quantum mechanics to neuronal processes, as quantum effects are thought to disappear at the large ...

Is your brain melting yet ... Really, this was a big deal in physics. So how did they fix it? By saying that the electric and magnetic forces are essentially the same thing—called the ...

Theoretical physicist Ziqiang Wang and researcher Kun Jiang, Ph.D. '18, help an international team of colleagues explain new findngs in the kagome magnet Boston College researcher Kun Jiang and ...

"Cramming all of physics into your head for that week is so concentrated that you need to be able to take a break and do something else. That summer I started to read books about the brain." His light ...

Controlling this state paves the way for the creation of more intelligent, reconfigurable and energy-efficient devices that mimic the brain ... of Physics Jordi Sort, director of the research. “There ...