Neuro's ark: Understanding fast foraging with star-nosed moles
04/2/2026 | 6 mins.
“MacArthur genius” Kenneth Catania outlined the physiology behind the moles’ stellar foraging skills two decades ago. Next, he wants to better characterize their food-seeking behavior.
Cell atlas cracks open 'black box' of mammalian spinal cord development
03/2/2026 | 5 mins.
The atlas details the genetics, birth dates and gene-expression signatures of roughly 150 neuron subtypes in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord.
NIH scraps policy that classified basic research in people as clinical trials
03/2/2026 | 6 mins.
The policy aimed to increase the transparency of research in humans but created “a bureaucratic nightmare” for basic neuroscientists.
Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted
03/2/2026 | 4 mins.
A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.
Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind
02/2/2026 | 12 mins.
If the struggle to articulate an idea is part of how you come to understand it, then tools that bypass that struggle might degrade your capacity for the kind of thinking that matters most for actual discovery.
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