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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The duplications likely do not alter the conclusions, but the paper contains other methodological issues, two independent microplastics researchers say.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 24 February.

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

The termination is one of more than 1,000 employee cuts at the U.S. agency this week.

The findings, detailed in a January preprint, suggest autism’s fundamental biology is the same regardless of ancestry. But questions remain.

U.S. National Institutes of Health-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.