How to use artificial intelligence to strengthen scientific processes and scholarly output
06/07/2026 | 5 mins.
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
01/07/2026 | 5 mins.
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
29/06/2026 | 8 mins.
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
26/06/2026 | 8 mins.
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
24/06/2026 | 5 mins.
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.
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