The Obtain: a brand new mind atlas, and utilizing maths to make sense of nature


Scientists have unveiled essentially the most compete atlas of the human mind ever created. The work, a part of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being BRAIN Initiative, is the fruits of 5 years of analysis, and consists of the placement and performance of greater than 3,000 cell sorts.

However what’s a mind atlas, precisely, and what units this one other than different mind atlases that exist already? And what can it inform us? Learn the total story.

—Cassandra Willyard

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This mathematician is making sense of nature’s complexity

To Gábor Domokos, a professor on the Budapest College of Know-how and Economics, an ordinary-looking rocky outcrop within the hills over Budapest isn’t just a respite from the busy metropolis, however a wellspring of mathematical questions.

Greatest identified for co-discovering the gömböc—the primary convex 3D form with simply two balancing factors—Domokos’ work on the geometry of pebbles has helped hint erosion on Earth and Mars.