Over 12 years, researchers mapped all of a larval fruit fly's brain, charting 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections. It's big news for neuroscience. Reading time 7 minutes To most humans, a fruit fly ...

When asked what’s so special about Drosophila melanogaster, or the common fruit fly, Gerry Rubin quickly gets on a roll. Rubin has poked and prodded flies for decades, including as a leader of the ...

An international collaboration between over 100 astrophysicists has led to the creation of the largest 3D map of the universe to date. The map was put together by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic ...

Astronomers have created the most complete 3-D map of our local universe, revealing new details about our place in the cosmos. The map shows all visible structures out to about 380 million light-years ...

The early cosmos isn't the easiest to envision. But this June 2025, the team behind the Cosmic Evolution Survey, or the COSMOS collaboration, has made it a bit easier to explore, having released the ...

Here's another entry in time-honored tradition of trying to re-envision the NYC subway map: Brooklyn cartographer Andrew Lynch created what he believes to be a "complete and geographically accurate" ...

My almost complete ignorance of beer makes this massive mapping of brews, organizing over 500 individual beers into more than 100 styles, a bit overwhelming for me. But it’s also utterly fascinating.

Prepare to feel really, really small: The newest map of the Milky Way charts an impressive 1 billion stars — and that's still barely 1 percent of what the galaxy has to offer. Using observations from ...

To me, maps always conjure up a sense of exploration. Back in the Age of Discovery, rudimentary maps allowed European explorers to sail into the vast unknown. They began charting new worlds, and in ...