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Neuroscience

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.

Seeing Sounds

Researchers uncover molecular clues for synesthesia.

The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting

How fMRI has become an ethical obligation.

September 5, 2018

How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology

A scientific field founded by men is now mostly female.

August 13, 2018

The Neurology of Flow States

Why time vanishes when you’re jamming.

June 4, 2018

Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

How mirror neurons affect the experience of fandom.

April 23, 2018

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.

April 3, 2018