Volunteers played a key part in validating a gigantic neuroscience study mapping the fruit-fly brain. It shows what can be ...

Age impedes the ability of the brain’s stem cells to churn out new cells, but the study’s authors found that reducing the ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images of slices of the fly’s brain. The researchers and their colleagues stitched ...

Physicists have identified new forms of γ-ray radiation created inside thunderclouds, and shown that levels of γ-ray production are much higher on Earth than previously thought.