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What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
Should I stay (and eat) or should I go? How the brain balances hunger with competing drives
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The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
Kenneth Harris and Andreas Tolias explain how AI has informed their neuroscience research
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”I think it’s possible that the apparent conflict between observations of engrams and drift might be due to issues of scale and subtleties in experimental design. — EVAN SCHAFFER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE, ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
The case for redefining ‘theory of mind’: Q&A with François Quesque
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How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Neural manifolds: Latest buzzword or pathway to understand the brain?
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar
El investigador de la cognición de insectos ha hecho su trabajo en varios continentes, pero Argentina nunca está lejos de su mente.
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
A README for open neuroscience
Designing an open-source microscope
Neuroscience needs a research-video archive
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
Putting a bright idea to the test
A surprising wave of findings in mice suggests that light and sound flickering at 40 hertz clears the brain of Alzheimer’s-disease-linked plaques. Several companies are hoping to prove it works in people.