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Mind over metrics: How can we tell if two brains (or AI models) are alike?
17/08/2026 | 8 mins.
The ability to record from large populations of neurons has triggered the development of myriad methods for comparing them. But we’re still grappling with how to convert measures of likeness into a better mechanistic understanding.
This paper changed my life: A technical breakthrough for memory studies
14/08/2026 | 4 mins.
In a 2007 Science paper, Mark Mayford and his colleagues found that some neurons activated during learning are also recruited during memory retrieval. Noelia Weisstaub shares how this study and others drove an era of great progress in tool development.
Are parts of the memory trace found in the 'astroengram?'
10/08/2026 | 10 mins.
Neurons have long taken top billing in memory, but researchers are making the case for astrocytes.
Scientific talent is global. Access to the world's scientific stage is not.
03/08/2026 | 8 mins.
Neuroscience in Chile, and across Latin America, does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible—prestigious journals, conferences and networks—increasingly price its researchers out.
How thirteen-lined ground squirrels illuminate retinal development
31/07/2026 | 5 mins.
In most mammalian retinas, rods outnumber cones. But that ratio is flipped in ground squirrels, a quirk that helps Seth Blackshaw explore how retinal cells develop their identities.

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