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No Cable Spaghetti in the Brain

The brain is not relying on random-wiring, but self-organized neural networks for visual information processing.

First Evidence of Sleep in Flight

Birds engage in all types of sleep in flight, but in remarkably small amounts.

How We Decide Where to Go

Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route toward a destination.

Fine Tuning Is Just Fine

Why it’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics.

September 18, 2018

Is It Time to Get Rid of Time?

The crisis inside the physics of time.

September 18, 2018

Seeing Sounds

Researchers uncover molecular clues for synesthesia.

Geology Makes You Time-Literate

A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.

September 12, 2018

A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.

September 12, 2018