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The question of how neurons find each other to connect was recently studied with experimental connectomics--altering neurons and then mapping their synaptic circuits with electron …

Having recently visited the Yellowstone National Park, the situation you describe for the North Sea side of Germany applies but worse, the cell phone data connection being non-exis…

On 3), the giant fiber is fast but not faster than other descending fibers. If anything, it is more reliable in its ability to signal. See: https://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17…

On eyes in general: the retina is not like a camera pixel array, rather, it extracts all kinds of features and detects motion: "Eye smarter than scientists believed: neural computa…

This could be one case where using a preprint server like the http://biorxiv.org/ would be key. Getting positive peer reviews when peers are opposed in principle is hard: no amount…

The correction: “Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats” by I. B.-A. Bartal et al. (9 December 2011, p. 1427). On p. 1428, the last full paragraph of column 1 was incorrect. The p…