The progression of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood, but new research may have found how the plaques that cause it ...

A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural ...

With Flywire, users were able to map 300,000 neurons in the fly brain over the course of six months. “The 50 largest neurons of the adult fruit fly brain connectome” by Tyler Sloan and ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, allowing researchers to map the ...

Around 10 million new cases of dementia are diagnosed globally every year, with Alzheimer’s disease accounting for 60-70% of ...

Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds.

Florida Atlantic University neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising role for a protein named "Frazzled" (known as DCC in ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Place cells in the hippocampus integrate signals from other brain regions to create and adapt memories of locations, shedding ...

Johns Hopkins scientists found that neurons form tiny nanotube networks to transport toxins like amyloid-beta.

Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains. In the lab, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Minhyeok Chang and colleagues ...

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Thursday, October 16, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I’ll ...