The latest artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT and Gemini can give a good impression of critical thinking, but they are, in essence, powerful word calculators. A synapse that works in the same medium as the human brain has a head start when you want to replicate its functionality.

The artificial synapse known as an iontronic memristor functions as a microchannel filled with a solution of water and salt.

Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimental physicists at Sogang University in South Korea, have succeeded in building an artificial synapse. This synapse works with water and salt and provides the first evidence that a system using the same medium as our brains can process complex information.

Scientists have long mimicked human synapses using conventional solid materials, but new research attempts to recreate using extremely basic ingredients: water and salt. By recreating human synapses using the same medium as our biological brains,

Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimental physicists at Sogang University in South Korea, have succeeded in building an artificial synapse. This synapse works with water

Groundbreaking achievements in the scientific community have led to the creation of brain cell simulations known as synapses. These have been ingeniously structured using water and salts, akin to the biological composition of the human brain.

For the first time, researchers have simulated neurological junctions called synapses using the same water and salt ingredients the brain uses, contributing to an emerging field that combines biology with electronics called iontronics.