Episódios

  • Neuro's ark: Understanding fast foraging with star-nosed moles
    Feb 5 2026

    “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.

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    7 minutos
  • Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted
    Feb 5 2026

    A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.

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    5 minutos
  • NIH scraps policy that classified basic research in people as clinical trials
    Feb 5 2026

    The policy aimed to increase the transparency of research in humans but created “a bureaucratic nightmare” for basic neuroscientists.

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    6 minutos
  • Cell atlas cracks open 'black box' of mammalian spinal cord development
    Feb 5 2026

    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.

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    6 minutos
  • Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind
    Feb 5 2026

    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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    12 minutos
  • Viral remnant in chimpanzees silences brain gene humans still use
    Jan 28 2026

    The retroviral insert appears to inadvertently switch off a gene involved in brain development.

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    6 minutos
  • Why emotion research is stuck-and how to move it forward
    Jan 28 2026

    Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.

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    10 minutos
  • How artificial agents can help us understand social recognition
    Jan 17 2026

    Neuroscience is chasing the complexity of social behavior, yet we have not answered the simplest question in the chain: How does a brain know “who is who”? Emerging multi-agent artificial intelligence may help accelerate our understanding of this fundamental computation.

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    6 minutos