Studying how brain cells respond to signals from their neighbors can aid the understanding of cognition and development. However, experimentally measuring the brain's activity is complicated. Neuron ...

It’s in your physics textbook, go look. It says that you can either model light as an electromagnetic wave OR you can model light a stream of photons. You can’t use both models at the same time. It’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. One of the dumber assertions that always turns up in arguments about ...