Zhang et al. carry out serial electron microscopy volume imaging in the human fovea. They show that the adult midget synaptic connectome is sculpted progressively by extensive circuit remodeling beginning in fetal life to produce a “private-line” circuit arrangement that is specialized for perceiving fine spatial detail.
A popular thought-experiment known as the “infinite monkey theorem” is debunked by Australian researchers.
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Irish Whale and Dolphin Group say a humpback whale has never been spotted before in an Irish river
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Xin et al. find that in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), layer 2/3 neurons projecting to the anterior basolateral amygdala promote losing, whereas layer 5 neurons…
It was the sort of grisly serendipity book publicists may only take covert satisfaction in.
Taking 2022 as a representative year, the university generated €3.2 million every day for the Irish economy
In a “billiard-ball world” of Newtonian science, causation was obvious—things had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an…
