Philosophers have been fascinated by the question since Pythagoras. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Elaine Chew, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, now teaches a graduate course on using computational and o...

The cover of May 4 issue of Neuron highlighting the work by Dr Duan et al. The cover depicts the conversion of the silent synapse (lower left, blue) into the functional one (upper right, red), induced by high-level neuronal activity (red b...