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Image of the Day: Slow-Growing Brains
Image of the Day: Slow-Growing Brains
Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in later hominins.
Image of the Day: Slow-Growing Brains
Image of the Day: Slow-Growing Brains

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in later hominins.

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in later hominins.

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Image of the Day: See-Through Tissue
Amy Schleunes | Feb 21, 2020 | 1 min read
Scientists have developed a tissue-clearing protocol that allows them to peer into entire, transparent human organs.
Image of the Day: Big Body, Little Brain
Amy Schleunes | Feb 20, 2020 | 1 min read
An extinct rodent relative of the capybara appears to have had a smaller brain-to-body ratio than similar species.
Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs
Amy Schleunes | Feb 18, 2020 | 1 min read
Without a brain, the frog embryo immune system doesn’t receive the signals it needs to mobilize macrophages and fight infections.
Image of the Day: Zebrafish Olfactory Epithelium
Emily Makowski | Nov 1, 2019 | 1 min read
Studies of the rosette-like structure can reveal clues to brain recovery after injury.
Image of the Day: DISCO Tissue Clearing
Emily Makowski | Oct 22, 2019 | 1 min read
New methods of visualizing tissue are presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Image of the Day: Brains and Braincases
Emily Makowski | Oct 18, 2019 | 1 min read
The skull changed shape in different ways than the brain during evolution, according to a new comparative study.
A section of a mouse piriform cortex, a layered structure important for smell processing
Image of the Day: Smell Circuits
Nicoletta Lanese | Jul 24, 2019 | 1 min read
The brain wiring behind scent processing seems to scale across mammalian species.
ChroMS chromatic multiphoton serial microscopy brain imaging mouse
Image of the Day: Multicolor Brain
Chia-Yi Hou | Apr 22, 2019 | 1 min read
A newly developed imaging technology visualizes entire mouse brains in two and three dimensions using multicolor fluorescence microscopy.
Image of the Day: Imposter Neurons
Carolyn Wilke | Mar 1, 2019 | 1 min read
Researchers have implanted electronics masquerading as neurons in the brains of mice.
Image of the Day: Under the Illusion
Carolyn Wilke | Feb 20, 2019 | 1 min read
The same group of neurons encode both actual motion and movement perceived in an optical illusion, according to a study on macaques.
Image of the Day: All Lit Up
Ashley Yeager | Nov 27, 2018 | 1 min read
A super-bright cell-labeling method reveals the intricate wiring that connects neurons in the brain.
Image of the Day: Snapshot
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jul 20, 2018 | 1 min read
Scientists map the fruit fly brain, giving an in-depth look at its neurons.
Image of the Day: Hide and Seek
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jun 26, 2018 | 1 min read
Neurons of the embryonic subplate don’t die as scientists had thought.
Image of the Day: The Five Percent
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | May 7, 2018 | 1 min read
A map of neural networks in the striatum of the mouse brain reveals clues about psychiatric and movement disorders.
Image of the Day: CRISPR on a Mouse Canvas
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | Oct 25, 2017 | 1 min read
Scientists are using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to tag and explore specific sets of neurons in mice, in one of the first steps towards building a comprehensive atlas of brain circuitry. 
Image of the Day: Tail Eyes
The Scientist | Apr 2, 2017 | 1 min read
Following treatment with a migraine drug, blind tadpoles were able to process visual information through eyes transplanted onto their tails.
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