Scientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain. Can Supercomputers Predict The Future? - Discovering The Hidden Treasures of Mauritania's Deadly Sahara Desert - Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - Read More: 'Artificial Synapses' Mimic Neurons, Hint at Brainy Computers “A brain-inspired computing component provides the most faithful emulation yet of connections among neurons in the human brain, researchers say. The so-called memristor, an electrical component whose resistance relies on how much charge has passed through it in the past, mimics the way calcium ions behave at the junction between two neurons in the human brain, the study said. That junction is known as a synapse.“ H
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