A renowned cartographer, the Paris-born Rekacewicz is well aware of his medium’s capacity to transform narratives for good ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

“If you have a broken radio and you have the circuit diagram, you’ll be in a better position to fix it.” said Nuno da Costa, Ph.D., associate investigator at the Allen Institute. “We are describing a ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

What began with a sliver of brain tissue no larger than a grain of sand has culminated in a scientific achievement once deemed impossible. A global team of researchers has unveiled the most intricate ...

WASHINGTON - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision ...

To see how your meal plans might be affected, check out this interactive map showing the origins of crops around the world ... This color-coded circular diagram shows you which regions import ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

The project spanned seven years and involved more than 150 scientists from leading institutions around the world ... and what makes this wiring diagram and brain map unique, is that it also ...

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The author writes, “The most comprehensive circuit diagram of neurons in a mammalian brain has been created by scientists, providing groundbreaking insights into the mystery of how the brain works.