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Research image showing that activity in single neurons spikes when a person encodes sequential items into working memory.

Null and Noteworthy

Null and Noteworthy: Neurons tracking sequences don’t fire in order

By Laura Dattaro

30 June 2025 | 4 min read

A hand points to a chalkboard with an astrocyte on it.

How to teach this paper

How to teach this paper: ‘Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia,’ by Liddelow et al. (2017)

By Ashley Juavinett

30 June 2025 | 10 min read

Memory

Expanded view of hippocampal function comes into focus

By Natalia Mesa

24 June 2025 | 11 min listen

Illustration of a fly in various poses.

This paper changed my life

This paper changed my life: Bradley Dickerson on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his research to this day

By Bradley Dickerson

17 June 2025 | 5 min listen

Photograph of a chickadee.

Hippocampus

Gazing at a location from afar activates place cells in chickadees

By Marta Hill

13 June 2025 | 6 min listen

Research image of mouse brain slices.

Neurobiology

Some dopamine neurons signal default behaviors to reinforce habits

By Holly Barker

11 June 2025 | 5 min listen

Abstract illustration of a human brain.

Community

‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt

By Nicole Rust

10 June 2025 | 9 min read

Research image of developing axons in the fly brain.

Developmental neuroscience

How developing neurons simplify their search for a synaptic mate

By Calli McMurray

6 June 2025 | 7 min listen

Two panels depict different brain wiring-like networks.

Critical period

Rethinking how neural activity sculpts critical periods

By Gregg Wildenberg

3 June 2025 | 6 min listen

Animal behavior

Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain

By Angie Voyles Askham

23 May 2025 | 10 min listen

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