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Oct 7, 2025
Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain...
Oct 6, 2025
A new study in Nature Neuroscience has identified a specific population of neurons in the visual cortex—dubbed IC-encoders—and shows their direct...
Science appears to be a step closer to understanding how the brain generates hallucinations, raising hopes that someday they might be preventable,...
Sep 24, 2025
You could one day be spared from ever experiencing the debilitating symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)—thanks to a new discovery that could help...
Millions of people around the world suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that causes debilitating joint swelling and pain....
Sep 19, 2025
The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study of octopus arms.
Sep 17, 2025
Understanding exactly how the billions of neurons and trillions of connections in our brains could be one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in...
Sep 16, 2025
New research into how the brain processes illusions bombarded mice’s neural cells with lasers, artificially reproducing the brain activity...
Researchers from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of California at Berkeley traced the role played by the cells, known...
