Big data is being reshaped thanks to 100-year-old ideas about geometry
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 10:50
in Biology & Nature
Your brain is made up of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. And how they're arranged gives rise to the brain's functionality and to your personality. That's why scientists in Switzerland recently produced the first-ever digital 3-D brain cell atlas, a complete mapping of the brain of a mouse. While this is a colossal achievement, the great challenge now lies in learning to decipher the atlas. And it's a huge one.