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How does the brain love and hate?

Feb 11, 2026

Consciousness is how we are able to feel, dream and imagine. And yet — scientists haven't figured out how consciousness definitively works.

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‘We feel it in our bones’: Can a machine ever love you?

Feb 10, 2026

Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?

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AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Feb 9, 2026

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data.

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🔒 Anthropic announces partnerships with Allen Institute and HHMI

Feb 3, 2026

The labs are using Claude-powered AI agents to tackle the analysis, annotation, and coordination bottlenecks.

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The Science Behind Better Visualizing Brain Function

Jan 5, 2026

Fluorescent trackers are helping scientists study the mind in real-time.

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The brain speaks a secret language scientists are only now beginning to understand

Jan 5, 2026

This discovery will give scientists a way to find the root cause of diseases like Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, Autism, Epilepsy, and more.

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Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless’

Dec 22, 2025

It will not only provide an inner window on brain disorders, but may become sophisticated enough to mimic the human brain’s full complexity.

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🔒 Puck News: Make It Brain

Dec 10, 2025

Dr. Anton Arkhipov has spent the past 12 years at the Allen Institute working to replicate thousands of miles of mouse brain circuitry.

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Nothing Left Unsaid Podcast: This Allen Institute ALS Discovery Could Change Everything

Dec 10, 2025

Dr. Tanya Daigle and Dr. Merit Cudkowicz join the NLS Podcast to reveal a future for ALS research that's closer than most people realize.

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All of these images show a subset of more than 1,000 of the 120,000 brain cells (neuron + glia) reconstructed in the MICRONS project. Each reconstructed neuron is a different random color. In some of the images, a subset of the neurons have been rendered as glowing in different ways to represent the fact that this dataset includes functional recordings from a subset of neurons.

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🔒 Nature: Method of the Year: EM connectomics

Dec 10, 2025

To understand the brain, it matters to precisely map how the brain’s neurons connect.

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