Let's start with a statement that learning doesn't have to be tedious. In fact, it can be downright fun, which is a fact proven by the existence of serious games. Their creators promote a ...

A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game's electronic ball and control ...

This electroactive polymer hydrogel “learned” to play Pong. Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science/Strong et al. “Our research shows that even very simple materials can exhibit complex, adaptive ...