Can AI learn by shrinking? A new study introduces a development-inspired continual learning framework for spiking neural ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

For the first time, researchers have confirmed that selectively pruning certain synapses in the brain can paradoxically ...

A human infant is born with roughly twice as many synapses as it will eventually need. Over the first few years of life, the ...

Research led by SUNY Downstate Medical Center has identified a brain receptor that appears to initiate adolescent synaptic pruning, a process believed necessary for learning, but one that appears to ...

Just as pruning tree branches helps them grow better, a study has found that appropriately "pruning" neural circuits in the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! Last time, we touched on the ‘bird’ aspect with migration and today, we’ll cover some brain stuff — let’s talk about pruning. However it happens, we know that once ...

How does artificial intelligence continue to improve its capabilities? For a long time, expanding model size has been regarded as an important way to ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...