Building 3-D Neural Networks with Beads
How do connections form between neurons? How does an Alzheimer’s drug affect the way neurons communicate? To help answer these questions, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists developed the next best thing to peering inside the brain. And they did it using something so simple, even a child can relate: tiny beads. More>
The Toughness of Bone
In the crossways direction, human bones are even tougher than scientists believed. Materials Sciences Division researchers measured cracking at the submillimeter scale and discovered the mechanisms that make bone so tough, and why they are easier to split lengthwise than to break. More>
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