neuroscience
What Is a Connectome? Brain Mapping Explained
Scientists have now mapped every neuron and connection in an adult fruit fly’s brain. It sits inside a bigger quest: to draw the complete wiring diagram of a brain, a connectome. Here is what that means.
Why Do We Dream? What Science Actually Knows
Every night your brain writes strange little films and screens them to an audience of one. After a century of study, why it does this is still one of science’s open questions.