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It might be more accurate to think of many of the brain’s 10 billion neurons as being deep networks, with five to eight layers in each one.

How to protect yourself from the din that surrounds you.

We survive noise by transforming it into patterns, like composers create music.

We’re mapping the brain in amazing detail—but our brain can’t understand the picture.

The story of dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism.

A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming.

The beauty of this breakthrough is serendipity.

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.

We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.

Mapping the heliosphere, which shields us from harmful cosmic rays.