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Beginning April 1, 2021, Terasem Movement, Inc. and Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc. are joining forces to become one organization, Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.
This website will remain in place during the merge and further notice will be posted here when all has been migrated and redirected to Terasem Movement Foundation at: Terasem Movement Foundation.
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Thank you for your patience while we perfect the merge.
Mission Statement
Terasem Movement, Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness, concentrating in particular on facilitating revivals from biostasis. The Movement focuses on preserving, evoking, reviving and downloading human consciousness.
Upcoming Terasem Events / Holidays
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The Terasem Journals include The Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology and The Journal of Personal
Cyberconsciousness. They are the journals of the Terasem Movement, Inc., a not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with the diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and person cyberconsciousness. Visit the Archive to view past issues. You can subscribe to the journals at no charge to receive newly published issues via email. For more information about Terasem click on link to visit page.
Terasem Journals
Join Terasem in an intergalactic time travel reaching for the stars and beyond, ad astra! Terasem created the CyBeRev Project (cybernetic beingness revival) in its mission to extend human life. The purpose of the project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person within a digital diary called a mindfile, so recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. When creating a free CyBeRev account, the User may elect to transmit his or her mindfile information through the cosmos via parabolic dish where it may be decoded by future generations of our own civilizations or civilizations we are yet unaware of. Click on the link to see how far the Terasem Spacecast traveled since it first began in 2007.
Spacecasting Progress
The Terasem Resident Scholar is expected to do up to six months of scholarly research regarding the Terasem Hypotheses, using the CyBeRev database as a resource, with the result published in a medium-to-high impact peer reviewed journal in the sciences or humanities.
Successful applicants to the Terasem Resident Scholar Program are expected to have a history of successful publications in medium-to-high impact peer reviewed journals in one or more field(s) relevant to the Terasem Hypotheses and CyBeRev. While not an absolute requirement, a typically successful Terasem Resident Scholar Program applicant would use their sabbatical year from a professorship for this opportunity.
Applications are by cover letter, CV and publication reprints to:
Terasem Movement, Inc.
Attn: Executive VP, Terasem Resident Scholar Program
P.O Box 33972
Indialantic FL 32903
Jan 26, 2021
Humans Won't be Able to Control a Superintelligent AI, According to a new Study
Our society is moving increasingly towards a reliance on artificial intelligence — from AI-run interactive job interviews to creating music and even memes, AI is already very much part of everyday life.
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Jan 25, 2021
Tiny Bio-Inspired Swarm Robots for Targeted Medical Interventions
Micro-sized robots could bring a new wave of innovation in the medical field by allowing doctors to access specific regions inside the human body without the need for highly invasive procedures.
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Jan 13, 2021
How Explainable Artificial Intelligence can help Humans Innovate
The field of artificial intelligence has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins, and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level.
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Jan 14, 2021
Meet the xenobot: world's first living, self-healing robots created from frog stem cells
Named xenobots after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which they take their stem cells, the machines are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide -- small enough to travel inside human bodies. They can walk and swim, survive for weeks without food, and work together in groups.
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Dec 09, 2020
Robotic Mind Clones with Bruce Duncan|FUTURES podcast #29
The Terasem Movement Foundation’s Bruce Duncan shares his thoughts on the possibility of uploading our minds into machines, what artificial intelligence might teach us about the origin of consciousness, and the story behind the creation of the humanoid robot BINA48.
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Nov 07, 2020
Ontological Holism: The Ultimate Reality of Self-Simulating Universe, or Why We All Are One.
A rising number of philosophers and scientists now voice their adherence to the worldview that we are living in a “top-down,” or holistic Universe, in which complex wholes are more fundamental than their parts, and that a kind of “bottom-up” physicalist picture of the Universe is outdated. Absolute Consciousness, or Universal Mind, is said to be the only ontological primitive.
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Oct 28, 2020
Singularity Studio and Hanson Robotics Launch New Healthcare Robotics Venture, Awakening Health
Awakening Health’s flagship product will be a new robot named Grace — the world’s first human-like robotic assistant for those in need of care and biodata management. Grace builds on the Hanson Robotics Sophia 2020 humanoid robotics platform and leverages unique neural-symbolic AI contributed by Singularity Studio, building on the SingularityNET decentralized AI platform.
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Aug 1, 2020
A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring
Network neuroscience could revolutionize how we understand the brain—and change our approach to neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Aug 1, 2020
Musk Says Neuralink AI Brain Chip Could Give You Super Human Hearing, Spotify In Your Head
Who needs earbuds when you can simply listen to your favorite songs in your head? Elon Musk recently provided more information about the mysterious Neuralink. Neuralink will reportedly be able to provide users with “enhanced abilities and reasoning” and allow them to stream music straight to their brains.
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Jul 27, 2020
Expert System Identifies Prostate Cancer with Near-Perfect Accuracy
A research study posted today (July 27, 2020) in The Lancet Digital Health through UPMC and also University of Pittsburgh analysts shows the best reliability to time in defining and also identifying prostate cancer cells making use of an expert system (AI) system.
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Apr 28, 2020
Morning, Noon and Night - 15 Ways AI Could Transform Daily Life
How might artificial intelligence impact daily life from dating to disputes and personal development?
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Feb 7, 2020
Mother Meets Recreation of her Deceased Child in VR
South Korean TV broadcaster MBC recently aired a Korean language documentary that centers on a family’s loss of their young daughter, seven-year-old Nayeon. Using the power of photogrammetry, motion capture, and virtual reality, the team recreated Nayeon for one last goodbye with the family’s mother, Ji-sung.
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Jan 29, 2020
Google Says Its Chatbot is capable of Near-Human Conversation
If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with a chatbot, you know that even today’s state-of-the-art systems aren’t exactly eloquent, regularly doling out nonsensical or painfully generic responses.
Now, though, Google has created Meena, a chatbot it says is better than any other it’s tested — a claim the company supports using a new metric it developed specifically to measure an AI’s conversational abilities.
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Dec 27, 2019
Why We Need Humanoid Robots Instead Of Faceless Kiosks
For the five years, I've been working with Sophia, the world's most expressive humanoid robot (and the first robot citizen), and the other amazing creations of social robotics pioneer Dr. David Hanson. During this time, I've been asked a few questions over and over again.
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Sep 08, 2019
Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans
Epigenetic “clocks” can now surpass chronological age in accuracy for estimating biological age. Here, we use four such age estimators to show that epigenetic aging can be reversed in humans.
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Mar 07, 2019
Nanosponges Sop Up Toxins and Help Repair Tissues.
Tiny particles coated with cell membranes can do more than deliver drugs
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Dec 08, 2019
A Harvard Geneticist's Goal: To Protect Humans from Viruses, Genetic Diseases, and Aging.
George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School is working to make humans immune to all viruses, eliminate genetic diseases and reverse the aging process. Scott Pelley reports on how close the geneticist's team is to a breakthrough.
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Dec 3, 2019
Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death.
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Nov 3, 2019
OffWorld's Smart Robots Could Swarm Solar System to Help Astronauts and Settlers
Future lunar explorers could have smart robots ready to help them thanks to OffWorld, a company that plans a fleet of industrial machines for destinations all over the solar system..
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Sep 10, 2019
Cast your data out into Space!
Join Terasem in an intergalactic time travel reaching for the stars and beyond, ad astra!
Terasem created the CyBeRev Project (cybernetic beingness revival) in its mission to extend human life. The purpose of the project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person within a digital diary called a mindfile, so recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state.
When creating a free CyBeRev account, the User may elect to transmit his or her mindfile information through the cosmos via parabolic dish where it may be decoded by future generations of our own civilizations or civilizations we are yet unaware of. The chart below depicts how far the Terasem Spacecast traveled since it first began in 2007.
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Aug 20, 2019
The Singularity Is Nearer: Microsoft Places $1 Billion Bet On Artificial General Intelligence
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in AI research company OpenAI to build a set of technologies that can deliver artificial general intelligence (AGI). The multiyear joint effort aims to construct a supercomputing capability in Azure that provides developers a platform for building AGI applications and delivering them to the public.
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Aug 05, 2019
Where Death Ends and Cyborgs Begin, with Futurist Zoltan Istvan
Transhumanism is a growing movement but also one of the most controversial. Though there are many varying offshoots within the movement, the general core idea is the same: evolve and enhance human beings by integrating biology with technology.
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Jul 30, 2019
Cast your data out into Space!
Join Terasem in an intergalactic time travel reaching for the stars and beyond, ad astra!
Terasem created the CyBeRev Project (cybernetic beingness revival) in its mission to extend human life. The purpose of the project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person within a digital diary called a mindfile, so recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state.
When creating a free CyBeRev account, the User may elect to transmit his or her mindfile information through the cosmos via parabolic dish where it may be decoded by future generations of our own civilizations or civilizations we are yet unaware of. The chart below depicts how far the Terasem Spacecast traveled since it first began in 2007.
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Jul 27, 2019
Frozen for eternity: Can you really cheat death?
Fifty years after the birth of the unorthodox and unregulated field of cryonics, the process remains unproven. Still, some people are willing to gamble a fortune on the hope of thawing out and emerging one day from an almost-permanent slumber.
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Jun 28, 2019
Artificial Intelligence: Mastering Chess, Then Societal Challenges?
In May 1997, an IBM chess-playing computer called Deep Blue defeated a grandmaster human chess player (under regular time controls) for the first time in history. It took four decades for computer programs and hardware to advance from their first victory in the mid-1950s to besting a world champion. In the twenty plus years since, however, chess programs running on relatively common hardware (like that used in smartphones) could routinely beat even the best human players.
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Jul 8, 2019
THE WONDER WOMAN WHO MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE
Meet Martine Rothblatt, Sirius XM founder who now creates life-saving technologies
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Jun 25, 2019
Self-assembling microrobots can be programmed to form a tiny steerable car
It’s easy to think that the world’s most exciting robots are those that exist on the larger end of the size spectrum, whether it’s humanoid robots created by Boston Dynamics or even larger mech-inspired robots. Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems think differently, however.
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Mar 29, 2019
Human Brain/Cloud Interface
Preamble: The Internet comprises a decentralized global system that serves humanity’s collective effort to generate, process, and store data, most of which is handled by the rapidly expanding cloud. A stable, secure, real-time system may allow for interfacing the cloud with the human brain. One promising strategy for enabling such a system, denoted here as a “human brain/cloud interface” (“B/CI”), would be based on technologies referred to here as “neuralnanorobotics.”
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Jun 08, 2015
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Preamble: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
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Jun 08, 2015
20 billion nanoparticles talk to the brain using electricity
Electricity is the brain’s language, and now we can speak to it without wires or implants. Nanoparticles can be used to stimulate regions of the brain electrically, opening up new ways to treat brain diseases.
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December 11, 2018
Pseudo-AI – When “AI” is Really a Human, but That Might be Okay
One of the biggest problems facing business executives when it comes to adopting AI is determining whether a company is truly leveraging AI or simply using the term as a marketing strategy.
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November 27, 2018
Could an Artificial Intelligence be Considered a Person Under the Law?
Humans aren’t the only people in society – at least according to the law. In the U.S., corporations have been given rights of free speech and religion. Some natural features also have person-like rights. But both of those required changes to the legal system. A new argument has laid a path for artificial intelligence systems to be recognized as people too – without any legislation, court rulings or other revisions to existing law.
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November 26, 2018
Cognitive Robotic Process Automation - Current Applications and Future Possibilities.
With the advent of automation, there’s been a boom of new jobs across various industries creating a paradigm shift in the standard of living of inhabitants and the society, in general.
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October 18, 2018
Digital Immortality: How your lifes data means a version of you live forever.
Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone.
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September 3, 2018
Nanobots can now swarm like fish to perform complex medical tasks
Researchers have developed a new method to control nanobots -- inside the human body.
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December 20, 2018
How to achieve ‘biological immortality’ naturally
Evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, professor at University of California, Irvine, says he has discovered a natural way to achieve “biological immortality” without the use of anti-aging drugs and stem cell treatments.
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May 14, 2018
Biologists 'transfer' a memory through RNA injection
Research in marine snails could lead to new treatments to restore memories and alter traumatic ones
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May 19, 2018
Machine with a Spirit
Interesting interview with Bina48
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April 2, 2018
I Want to Preserve My Brain So My Mind Can Be Uploaded to a Computer in the Future
A company called Nectome is developing a technology designed to preserve the brain so the human mind can be uploaded to supercomputers in the future.
Motherboard.com
May 15, 2018
27 Incredible Examples of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in Practice
There are so many amazing ways artificial intelligence and machine learning are used behind the scenes to impact our everyday lives and inform business decisions and optimize operations for some of the world’s leading companies. Here are 27 amazing practical examples of AI and machine learning
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April 2, 2018
I Want to Preserve My Brain So My Mind Can Be Uploaded to a Computer in the Future
A company called Nectome is developing a technology designed to preserve the brain so the human mind can be uploaded to supercomputers in the future.
Motherboard.com
March 14, 2018
Stephan Hawking's Beautiful Mind
A brief history of Stephen Hawking on the New York Times website
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January 15, 2018
DNA of Man Who Died in 1827 Recreated Without His Remains
"Recreating a deceased person or animal’s DNA has required that DNA be extracted from the remains of the individual, but a new study has shown that may not be the only way.
Futurism.com
January 9, 2018
Scientists could one day make humans immortal
"A few of the ideas being explored by scientists to extend life span toward immortality are cryogenic freezing, meshing human cognition with AI and even uploading thoughts. "
New York Post
December 21, 2018
Meet the Robot that Passed a College Class on Philosophy and Love.
"This semester, a robot named BINA48 successfully passed a class on Philosophy and Love at Notre Dame de Namur (NDNU), making her the first advanced robot to complete a college course. "
CNBC.com
December 4, 2017
Google artificial intelligence creates its own AI ‘child’
"Google’s AutoML artificial intelligence (AI) system has created its own “fully-functional AI child” that’s capable of outperforming its human-made equivalents, reports Alphr."
The Week.com
November 13, 2017
Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics
"The rights of people who choose cryonics are important, and should be respected"
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October 26, 2017
Saudi Arabia's Newest Citizen is a Robot
Sophia, an intelligent humanoid robot, has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. It’s the first country in the world to give a bot the same status reserved for humans.
FORTUNE
May 31, 2017
Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years Away
Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, Rodney Brooks, and others weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence
SPECTRUM.ieee.org
May 25, 2017
How Many Civilizations Exist in Our Galaxy?
What is the Lifetime of Civilizations in a (Transatmospheric) Communicative State? Martine Rothblatt, 2017 Cambridge Science Festival
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May 8, 2017
Martine Rothblatt: “Real Dreams for the Radical World"
The Gathering at Keystone College: A conversation about digital mortality and breaking other barriers.
YouTube
April 27, 2017
Clinton Township: Cryonics Institute
Destination Michigan: Steve Smith is taking us to a place that could be our portal to the future ... a destination "where no man has gone before."
WCMU Public Media
April 8, 2017
This AI Company Offers Cryogenic Freezing With Its Health Plan
Staff members who die will be put in cold storage until medical science can revive them.
Motherboard.com
March 27, 2017
New York Times Article: Robots Have Existential Crisis, Too
By David Gonzalez:
New York Times.com
March 20, 2017
Article: Welcome to the Era of Transhumanism
By Rich Haridy: New Atlas.com
November 28, 2016
Recommended Reading: Earth Seed: Settling Space in This Generation by Donald Jacques
Find it here:Amazon.com
November 18, 2016
UK Teenager wins battle to have body cryogenically frozen.
Read here:CNN.com
August 3, 2016
Martine and Bina interview with Whoopie Goldberg of The View.
Watch the interview:The View
May 18, 2016
Martine Rothblatt's Vision for Immortality
Martine Rothblatt explains how our doppelgangers could lead to immortality. Washington Post Live
April 3, 2016
National Geographic's The Story of God
Morgan Freeman Interviews BINA48. The Story of God
January 3, 2016
Watching A Robot Get Interviewed By A Musician Is As Mindblowing As It Sounds
New York singer/songwriter JiHAE and strikingly 'human' robot Bina48 sit down for a quick chat about the world. The Fader
August 18, 2015
Transparent Brains for Large-scale Connectomic Mapping
Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have created a new technique for converting brain tissue into transparent tissue to reveal 3D brain anatomy at very high resolution, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. The new technique, called ScaleS, has been used for large-scale connectomic mapping and 3D neural circuit reconstruction.
August 18, 2015
Miniature Functioning Human-brain Model
Scientists have developed a miniature human brain in a dish with the equivalent brain maturity of a five-week-old fetus, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. The researchers at Ohio State report that it contains most of the structures found in a developing brain (except for a vascular system) and represents the most complete human brain model yet developed.
August 12, 2015
Origin of Robot Species
University of Cambridge researchers have built a robot that can build other (simpler) robots, test which one does best, and automatically use the results to improve the design for the next generation of robots, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. This is but one step away from self-improving reproduction in a machine ... basically the beginning of Darwinian evolution in machines. Considering that the pace of such evolution will be a billion times faster than it was with biological organisms, Kurzweil may have his Singularity very soon.
August 10, 2015
Humour in a Machine
Researchers at Microsoft have developed an artificial intelligence system with a sense of humour. According to an article in Bloomberg News, the system is intended to sift through over 5000 black and white cartoons submitted to the New Yorker every week to find the funniest choices among captions that make similar jokes. The lack of humour in an AI has been a mainstay in science fiction, perhaps best represented by Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed software that can recognize hand-drawn sketches better than humans for the first time. According to an
Scientists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and Linkoping University have built what they claim is a "fully functional neuron" that mimicks the functions of a human nerve cell, according to an article published in Kurzweil AI News . The "organic electronic biomimetic neuron" senses a chemical change in one dish and translates it into an electrical/ionic signal that travels along an "axon" to a "synapse" and releases chemical signals in another dish that then trigger another neuron, etc.
June 22, 2015
Brain connections last as long as the memories they store
Our memories are as fleeting as the brain structures that store them, or so the theory goes. When the connections - called synapses - between neurons break, the memories they hold are thought to evaporate along with them. Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and of applied physics at Stanford, has leveraged microscopy tools developed in his lab to monitor the connections (synapses) between hippocampal neurons for the first time and confirm this theory, according to an article published in the Stanford News Service. In the mice that the neuroscientist and his team studied, the connections between neurons lasted about 30 days, roughly the duration over which episodic memories are believed to stay in the mouse hippocampus.
