The brain is a particularly complex organ, not only in humans. Even the brain of a fly contains more than 100,000 neurons connected by millions of synapses. For the first time, an international community of researchers has reconstructed and published all neurons with their corresponding synaptic connections in the brain of an adult female fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has identified a unique brain network that links varied patterns of brain atrophy, or shrinkage, associated with schizophrenia. By combining neuroimaging data from multiple studies involving more than 8,000 participants, the research tea...

Global chip maker Intel’s India MD Santhosh Viswanathan said that India needs to build its own foundational large language models (LLMs) but frugally to leap frog into the ongoing AI revolution. His views come at a time when India’s biggest tech voices including Nandan Nilekani and Narayana Murthy have been talking about the country becoming AI use case capital of the world, leveraging the foundational models of global tech giants Google, Open...