This Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting
by Dan Garisto
Sep 18, 2017
3 minutes
You don’t need a brain to learn. Slime molds, for example, solve mazes and navigate obstacles—all without a single neuron. Information about their environment is somehow stored across their bodies. (Scientists are still a bit hazy on how this works.)
But what about something that isn’t even alive? A new suggests that samarium nickelate oxide (SNO, for short), a
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