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Climate neuroscience needs 'integration' and 'guided' research Aug 21, 2026

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Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?

Brainstem neurons add new element to 'already complex' anxiety circuitry Aug 19, 2026

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Precise optogenetic modulation of a medullary neuron population reveals their role in anxiety-like behaviors.

Mind over metrics: How can we tell if two brains (or AI models) are alike? Aug 17, 2026

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The ability to record from large populations of neurons has triggered the development of myriad methods for comparing them. But we're still grappling with how to convert measures of likeness into a better mechanistic understanding.

This paper changed my life: A technical breakthrough for memory studies Aug 14, 2026

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In a 2007 Science paper, Mark Mayford and his colleagues found that some neurons activated during learning are also recruited during memory retrieval. Noelia Weisstaub shares how this study and others drove an era of great progress in tool development.

Are parts of the memory trace found in the 'astroengram?' Aug 10, 2026

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Neurons have long taken top billing in memory, but researchers are making the case for astrocytes.

How thirteen-lined ground squirrels illuminate retinal development Jul 31, 2026

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In most mammalian retinas, rods outnumber cones. But that ratio is flipped in ground squirrels, a quirk that helps Seth Blackshaw explore how retinal cells develop their identities.

In memoriam: Kevin Dunbar, who traced the neural basis of human reasoning Jul 24, 2026

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Using imaging technologies, he transformed our understanding of how creativity and scientific discovery arise in the brain.

This paper changed my life: Embracing an early model for naturalistic neuroscience Jul 14, 2026

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A 1992 PNAS paper showed how birdsong upregulates the expression of an immediate early gene in bird forebrains. The work revealed to Ribeiro the importance of studying molecular responses in naturalistic contexts.

Watching the mind build a world: Lucid dreaming as a model for generative perception Jul 13, 2026

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Lucid dreaming offers a rare opportunity to observe and probe perception from within.

Mass-produced science is coming. What happens to scientists? Jul 09, 2026

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Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. For science consumers-the public, medical patients, technology users-the likely effects will be positive. For scientists, the effects will be as disruptive as industrial mass production was for artisan manufacturers.

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