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Infant memories: Lost but not gone?
Finally, a new route for the magnetic-sense field
Sensory over-responsivity tied to autism, anxiety but not other conditions
Infant memories: Lost but not gone?
Neuromechanical models deepen our understanding of animal motor control
Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
Amid funding uncertainty, neuroscientists report a mix of cynicism, persistence
It’s basically a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and we don’t even know what the needle looks like.
— KENNETH LOHMANN, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL READ MORE
Sensory over-responsivity tied to autism, anxiety but not other conditions
Dutch primate center awaits October animal research debate
Amid funding uncertainty, neuroscientists report a mix of cynicism, persistence
The Transmitter’s directory of new labs in Latin America
The promise of open neuroscience for Latin America
Scientific talent is global. Access to the world’s scientific stage is not.
The State of Neuroscience in Latin America
Through interviews with dozens of Latin American neuroscientists, The Transmitter explores how researchers in six countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay—conduct high-quality research in the face of numerous obstacles.
Climate neuroscience needs ‘integration’ and ‘guided’ research
Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?
This paper changed my life: A technical breakthrough for memory studies
This paper changed my life: Learning the molecular rules of cell identity
Neuropathologist not guilty of research misconduct, says university probe
Scientists decry conference’s use of hidden prompts to snare AI peer reviews
Exclusive: Neuroscience journal editor resigns over automation concerns
The Transmitter’s directory of new labs in Latin America
Learn about early-career neuroscientists who have started new labs or independent lines of research in Latin America over the past five years.
The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Mind over metrics: How can we tell if two brains (or AI models) are alike?
Making waves: Sleep-like brain activity in awake mice lowers sleep need, boosts memory
Five new neuroscience books, and other notable titles from 2026
‘The Brain, In Theory,’ an excerpt
David Sussillo on persistence, luck and the bonds between life and work
Models at the speed of thought: How AI coding is reshaping theoretical neuroscience
Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months. Seven neuroscientists weigh in on what that tectonic change may bring to the field.
Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience?
Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what we stand to learn from this exchange.