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How to use artificial intelligence to strengthen scientific processes and scholarly output Jul 06, 2026

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As AI-driven systems are integrated into all aspects of science, we need to make sure that they read and write to a shared data and knowledge space.

What mosquitos lay bare about proprioception Jul 01, 2026

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By comparing the proprioceptive systems of mosquitos and fruit flies, Sweta Agrawal aims to uncover fundamental features of the ability to sense self-movement.

AI can't solve the brain without data that fit together Jun 29, 2026

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The brain's first foundation models exist because some areas of neuroscience did the slow work of developing and adopting standards to help integrate data. Artificial intelligence cannot do that work for us.

Remembering Avis H. Cohen, who bridged disciplines to decode lamprey locomotion Jun 26, 2026

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The founding director of the University of Maryland's Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program brought neuroscience, math and engineering together.

Cooperating marmosets extend decision-making model of the brain Jun 24, 2026

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When a pair of marmosets works together to earn some marshmallow fluff, one of them decides to act only after its brain accumulates enough evidence about what the other is doing, new work shows.

Exclusive: Janelia sunsets rodent work, launches transparent fish project Jun 22, 2026

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that even with a three-year runway and transitional support, they feel betrayed by the pivot.

Transforming AI models into useful model organisms Jun 22, 2026

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These systems were not built to explain the brain. But treating them as model organisms that we can perturb and evolve will move us closer to that goal.

Cousin comparison parses genetic effects in autism Jun 18, 2026

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The approach helps reveal whether maternal genes contribute directly to autism in children or have indirect effects on the prenatal environment.

This paper changed my life: Learning the molecular rules of cell identity Jun 17, 2026

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A 1987 Cell paper showed that a single transcription factor could turn fibroblasts into muscle cells. The work inspired Ardem Patapoutian to think about the molecular codes that define neuronal subtypes.

Models at the speed of thought: How AI coding is reshaping theoretical neuroscience Jun 16, 2026

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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.

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