Preston discusses her research examining differences in how children, teenagers and adults integrate new information into their memories.

The two scientists discuss how to estimate a research project’s carbon emissions, from supply procurement to energy usage.

A government spending bill, which was approved today by the House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year.

The eight-legged, millimeter-long animals reveal how small nervous systems produce complex behaviors and perceptual abilities, a preprint suggests.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 10 March.

Truly understanding the brain requires a set of conditions we’re unlikely to meet: that knowledge about the brain is finite, and that we have both access to that knowledge and the means to understand it.

The change averts termination for the three neuroscience lab heads, who were set to be let go tomorrow.

The subunit acts as a “volume control” on signaling that shapes the density of dendritic spines, the new work suggests.

Family-linked factors explain most associations between maternal illness and autism, a study of 1.1 million Danish children finds.

Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler share the $1.4 million award for their discovery of synapses between brain cancer cells and neurons.

A lack of programming experience can derail experimental aspirations. But custom software packages, web-based applications and video tutorials make functional MRI concepts easier to grasp.

Eight neuroscientists at different career stages spoke with The Transmitter about whether they plan to participate in the upcoming “Stand Up for Science” demonstrations across the United States on 7 March.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 3 March.

The burden of proof is on us—researchers—to explain why what we do is valuable to society.

Some departments plan to shrink class sizes by 25 to 40 percent, and others may inadvertently accept more students than they can afford, according to the leaders of 21 top U.S. programs.

To harness the workmanlike prose of artificial intelligence while maintaining a recognizable style, use it as an analyzer rather than as a writer.

This edition of Null and Noteworthy—the first for The Transmitter—highlights new findings about the auditory steady-state response in people with schizophrenia that, all within one study, somehow packed in a null result and a failed replication.

These networks align with different assemblages of cells, a finding that could reveal how cellular diversity influences brain function, according to a new study.

The changes could reflect different developmental trajectories between boys and girls with autism, a new study suggests.

Touch modulates one of two dueling types of hypothalamic neurons that, thermostat-like, balance an animal’s drive for social interaction.