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INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons. MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

MICROWORLD: A TINY ADVENTURE! Are you a fan of teeny tiny things? Sure you are! That's why you have such an affinity for Eyewire's neurons, right? Did you know that neurons are only about 4 microns (.004 mm) to 100 microns (.1 mm) in size, and Eyewire's dataset is only 350×300×60 µm3? That's just slightly larger than 1 pixel on your screen! Oh, EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons. MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

MICROWORLD: A TINY ADVENTURE! Are you a fan of teeny tiny things? Sure you are! That's why you have such an affinity for Eyewire's neurons, right? Did you know that neurons are only about 4 microns (.004 mm) to 100 microns (.1 mm) in size, and Eyewire's dataset is only 350×300×60 µm3? That's just slightly larger than 1 pixel on your screen! Oh,

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The Eyewire Heroes were crushing the brain mapping game. Their collaborative discoveries about connectomics graced the pages of the top science publications, while visualizations of newly discovered neurons have appeared in galleries and film festivals. All was great and there was a lot of cake. But the scientists kept reminding the

Heroes just

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CRASH COURSE 1 The Autonomic nervous system is further subdivided into Sympathetic, commonly described as “fight or flight” fast response, and Parasympathetic, a complementary system that encourages relaxation. via Crash Course. Together, these systems integrate billions of signals per second to create the sensory and conceptual experience of

being you.

VISUAL STREAK

The Visual Streak is the area of highest acuity in the retina of many species. In humans and some other mammals, the location of highest acuity in the retina is a circular area termed the fovea or area centralis.In contrast, some animals (such as rabbits) have a visual

streak.

GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER The two largest major subdivisions of the brain are gray (grey) matter and white matter. The brain is a blobby 3D structure that is covered in grey matter, which we call Cortex. Roughly 50% of the brain’s volume is cortex, so it’s a thick layer. Within cortex are found somas (cell bodies) and almost all of the brain’s synapses, from

both

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F A BEAUTIFUL BRAIN VISUALIZATION TOOL A Beautiful Brain Visualization Tool. Amy Sterling April 28, 2016 Neuroscience. An exciting new browser-based semantic brain visualization tool was released today accompanying a Nature publication from Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley. Researchers used fMRI to measure brain activity while people listened to Moth Radio Hour. CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

AN ELECTROMAGNETIC BATTLE: INFRARED VS. ULTRAVIOLET An Electromagnetic Battle: Infrared vs. Ultraviolet. As you may know, the visible light range ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) is only one fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, comprising EM radiation in a frequency range of approximately 430–750 terahertz. Once you start to get lower or higher frequency

than

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

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INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons. MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel.

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons. MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel.

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

EYEWIRE STORY

The Eyewire Heroes were crushing the brain mapping game. Their collaborative discoveries about connectomics graced the pages of the top science publications, while visualizations of newly discovered neurons have appeared in galleries and film festivals. All was great and there was a lot of cake. But the scientists kept reminding the

Heroes just

A WALK THROUGH EYEWIRE The volume is full of branches — in EyeWire we map one cell at a time to prevent confusion. A player scrolls to navigate through all 256 cross-sections (2D, right) that make the 3D cube. EyeWire starts a player off with a highlighted segment (dark blue). The

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model

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VISUAL STREAK

The Visual Streak is the area of highest acuity in the retina of many species. In humans and some other mammals, the location of highest acuity in the retina is a circular area termed the fovea or area centralis.In contrast, some animals (such as rabbits) have a visual

streak.

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light JUNE OPEN PROMOTIONS Hello Eyewirers! This is your monthly reminder about open promotions for Scouts, Scythes, Mystics, Mods, and Mentors! You can fill out the open promotion form here to be considered by HQ without requiring player sponsors. Scout, Scythe, and Mentor Qualifications: Have at least earned 50,000 points and completed 500 cubes Maintain at least

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GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER The two largest major subdivisions of the brain are gray (grey) matter and white matter. The brain is a blobby 3D structure that is covered in grey matter, which we call Cortex. Roughly 50% of the brain’s volume is cortex, so it’s a thick layer. Within cortex are found somas (cell bodies) and almost all of the brain’s synapses, from

both

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). A BEAUTIFUL BRAIN VISUALIZATION TOOL A Beautiful Brain Visualization Tool. Amy Sterling April 28, 2016 Neuroscience. An exciting new browser-based semantic brain visualization tool was released today accompanying a Nature publication from Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley. Researchers used fMRI to measure brain activity while people listened to Moth Radio Hour. EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel.

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

AN ELECTROMAGNETIC BATTLE: INFRARED VS. ULTRAVIOLET An Electromagnetic Battle: Infrared vs. Ultraviolet. As you may know, the visible light range ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) is only one fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, comprising EM radiation in a frequency range of approximately 430–750 terahertz. Once you start to get lower or higher frequency

than

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel.

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

AN ELECTROMAGNETIC BATTLE: INFRARED VS. ULTRAVIOLET An Electromagnetic Battle: Infrared vs. Ultraviolet. As you may know, the visible light range ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) is only one fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, comprising EM radiation in a frequency range of approximately 430–750 terahertz. Once you start to get lower or higher frequency

than

EYEWIRE STORY

The Eyewire Heroes were crushing the brain mapping game. Their collaborative discoveries about connectomics graced the pages of the top science publications, while visualizations of newly discovered neurons have appeared in galleries and film festivals. All was great and there was a lot of cake. But the scientists kept reminding the

Heroes just

INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons.

INTO THE BRAIN

Slice by slice, image by image we can make a stack of images that represent an entire volume of brain. You can scroll through it like a flipbook. To image one cubic millimeter of neurons, a volume the size of a period at the end of a sentence, makes 1.4 Petabytes of images. That’s 1,400,000 Gigabytes. This process takes about 6 months to

achieve.

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CRASH COURSE 1 The Autonomic nervous system is further subdivided into Sympathetic, commonly described as “fight or flight” fast response, and Parasympathetic, a complementary system that encourages relaxation. via Crash Course. Together, these systems integrate billions of signals per second to create the sensory and conceptual experience of

being you.

BIPOLAR CELL

Bipolar cells have been known since at least 1894 by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and possibly back to 1887, as he says of Ferruccio Tartuferi's Sulla anatomia della retina (Archivio per le science mediche, Vol. XI. No. 16. p. 335. 1887): " succeeded, above all, to detect the true morphology of bipolar cells in the inner nuclear layer." Open questions / status / relevance to EyeWire WHAT ARE THE MAIN NEUROTRANSMITTERS? There are three main categories of neurotransmitters in the brain: Small molecules used for fast-action excitatory / inhibitory information transmission (glutamate, GABA) Small molecules used for slower modulation of network activity (dopamine,serotonin, and 3 others) Peptides (large protein molecules) used for even slower modulation of circuit

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F MICROWORLD: A TINY ADVENTURE! Are you a fan of teeny tiny things? Sure you are! That's why you have such an affinity for Eyewire's neurons, right? Did you know that neurons are only about 4 microns (.004 mm) to 100 microns (.1 mm) in size, and Eyewire's dataset is only 350×300×60 µm3? That's just slightly larger than 1 pixel on your screen! Oh, RAMÓN Y CAJAL VS GOLGI Ramón y Cajal vs Golgi – A neuroscience rivalry. Although it seems obvious to us today that the brain is made up of billions of cells called “neurons,” this was not so when Spainard Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Italian Camillo Golgi were children. When they were growing up in the mid 1800s, it had only been a couple decades since Czech EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model THE NEUROTRANSMITTER THROWDOWN: GABA VS. GLUTAMATE Team Glutamate. Among the most common neurotransmitters in vertebrates, glutamate performs an excitatory function, which keeps your neurons in a state of long-term potentiation; this means it strengthens signals across your brain and helps your brain stay plastic, i.e. able to form new connections. As a result, you need glutamate for cognition

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model THE NEUROTRANSMITTER THROWDOWN: GABA VS. GLUTAMATE Team Glutamate. Among the most common neurotransmitters in vertebrates, glutamate performs an excitatory function, which keeps your neurons in a state of long-term potentiation; this means it strengthens signals across your brain and helps your brain stay plastic, i.e. able to form new connections. As a result, you need glutamate for cognition

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

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EYEWIRE STORY

The Eyewire Heroes were crushing the brain mapping game. Their collaborative discoveries about connectomics graced the pages of the top science publications, while visualizations of newly discovered neurons have appeared in galleries and film festivals. All was great and there was a lot of cake. But the scientists kept reminding the

Heroes just

INTO THE BRAIN

About Eyewire. Eyewire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world already do. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons and advancing our quest to understand ourselves. By joining Eyewire, you can help map the connectome, starting with

INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons.

NEO | PREVIEW

Solve the puzzles of perception and explore uncharted worlds in Neo, a brand new game from the creators of Eyewire. Adventure deep into cortex, charting new territory with your trusty AI sidekick, MSTY. The expedition begins. 2018.

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light

VISUAL STREAK

The Visual Streak is the area of highest acuity in the retina of many species. In humans and some other mammals, the location of highest acuity in the retina is a circular area termed the fovea or area centralis.In contrast, some animals (such as rabbits) have a visual

streak.

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER The two largest major subdivisions of the brain are gray (grey) matter and white matter. The brain is a blobby 3D structure that is covered in grey matter, which we call Cortex. Roughly 50% of the brain’s volume is cortex, so it’s a thick layer. Within cortex are found somas (cell bodies) and almost all of the brain’s synapses, from

both

CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model THE NEUROTRANSMITTER THROWDOWN: GABA VS. GLUTAMATE Team Glutamate. Among the most common neurotransmitters in vertebrates, glutamate performs an excitatory function, which keeps your neurons in a state of long-term potentiation; this means it strengthens signals across your brain and helps your brain stay plastic, i.e. able to form new connections. As a result, you need glutamate for cognition

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MICROWORLD: VIRAL HUNT We've all heard a lot about viruses this past year! But what exactly is a virus, and how does it fit into the world of microbiology? Viruses a very small, even for the microworld! They are considered to be submicroscopic, meaning you cannot see them with a traditional microscope. However, you can capture images of THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN MAPPING Between 2020 and 2022, a new brain mapping game will invite the world to solve puzzles alongside cutting-edge AI to reconstruct about 100,000 neurons and find 1 billion synapses. We don't know what we will uncover, except that much of it will be new and novel. EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

SANGER'S RULE

Sanger's rule, also known as sequential principal components analysis, developed by American neurologist Terence Sanger in 1985, is a version of Oja's rule which forces neurons to represent a well-ordered set of principal components of the data set.. Model THE NEUROTRANSMITTER THROWDOWN: GABA VS. GLUTAMATE Team Glutamate. Among the most common neurotransmitters in vertebrates, glutamate performs an excitatory function, which keeps your neurons in a state of long-term potentiation; this means it strengthens signals across your brain and helps your brain stay plastic, i.e. able to form new connections. As a result, you need glutamate for cognition

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

LOG IN | EYEWIRE

Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

EYEWIRE STORY

The Eyewire Heroes were crushing the brain mapping game. Their collaborative discoveries about connectomics graced the pages of the top science publications, while visualizations of newly discovered neurons have appeared in galleries and film festivals. All was great and there was a lot of cake. But the scientists kept reminding the

Heroes just

INTO THE BRAIN

About Eyewire. Eyewire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world already do. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons and advancing our quest to understand ourselves. By joining Eyewire, you can help map the connectome, starting with

INTO THE BRAIN

The basics of neuron anatomy include a few main structures. These main structures are synapses, which allow for neurons to communicate with each other, dendrites, which receive incoming signals from other neurons, somas (cell bodies), which contain DNA and crucial information for the cell’s survival, and axons, which send signals to surrounding neurons.

NEO | PREVIEW

Solve the puzzles of perception and explore uncharted worlds in Neo, a brand new game from the creators of Eyewire. Adventure deep into cortex, charting new territory with your trusty AI sidekick, MSTY. The expedition begins. 2018.

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light

VISUAL STREAK

The Visual Streak is the area of highest acuity in the retina of many species. In humans and some other mammals, the location of highest acuity in the retina is a circular area termed the fovea or area centralis.In contrast, some animals (such as rabbits) have a visual

streak.

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER The two largest major subdivisions of the brain are gray (grey) matter and white matter. The brain is a blobby 3D structure that is covered in grey matter, which we call Cortex. Roughly 50% of the brain’s volume is cortex, so it’s a thick layer. Within cortex are found somas (cell bodies) and almost all of the brain’s synapses, from

both

CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MUSEUM | EYEWIRE

This is where we present our finished reconstructions in an accessible format. In our viewer, you'll be able to see these finished cells represented in 3D space along with data pertinent to interpreting their significance. The neurons currently displayed here are mouse retinal cells from a

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital).

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

RAMÓN Y CAJAL VS GOLGI Ramón y Cajal vs Golgi – A neuroscience rivalry. Although it seems obvious to us today that the brain is made up of billions of cells called “neurons,” this was not so when Spainard Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Italian Camillo Golgi were children. When they were growing up in the mid 1800s, it had only been a couple decades since Czech EXPLORE | EYEWIRESIGN UPBLOGMAIN PAGEABOUTEYEWIRE FORUMEXPLORE Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab. LOG IN | EYEWIRESIGN UPWEBGLEXPLOREJOBS Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at

MIT.

MUSEUM | EYEWIRE

This is where we present our finished reconstructions in an accessible format. In our viewer, you'll be able to see these finished cells represented in 3D space along with data pertinent to interpreting their significance. The neurons currently displayed here are mouse retinal cells from a

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

The battle begins July 13th at 11am ET and runs for 24 hours. In our current world, we use analog and digital signals all the time. A classic example is the round faced clock you watched when you were waiting for your class period to end (analog) vs the clock on your mobile phone (digital). EMERSON VS THOREAU: TRANSCENDENTALIST BATTLE Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800's. They hung around the New England area - where Eyewire HQ is located! Emerson is sometimes considered the "father" of transcendentalism, and Thoreau was a student of his. Emerson was a prolific essayist, with his most famous essay titled

"Self-Reliance."

SUN VS. MOON

Moon. Probably about 60 million years younger than the Sun, probably created from the impact of a Mars-sized object with the young Earth. So much smaller than Earth that its surface gravity is about 16.5% that of our planet, making a 68 kg (150 lb.) human weigh about 11 kg (25 lb.) whee! Minimum surface temperature is about -173°C (-280°F ASTRONOMY ACTION: COPERNICUS VS. GALILEO Astronomy Action: Copernicus vs. Galileo. D. Jones March 22, 2016 Competitions, VS. Of all the famous astronomers from the European Renaissance, perhaps two* stand out the most in our minds for making the biggest contributions to their field: Copernicus and Galileo. Some of their major discoveries proved controversial, but contemporary CRASH COURSE NERVOUS SYSTEM 2: HOW ACTION POTENTIALS WORK Action Potential via Crash Course . Post 2 in the Crash Course series on how the nervous system works: Action Potential!. Neurons are extraordinary cells. Beyond being intricately branched and gigantic relative to most cells, every second hundreds of billions of electrical impulses called action potentials are transmitted in your

body.

HOW IS A HAWK’S VISION DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN’S? How exactly is the vision ability of a hawk different than that of an average human? Neuroscience Graduate Student Julie Desjardin and Biology Graduate Student Brandon McLaughlin weigh in via Quora: Julie: Hawks and other birds of prey actually have 2 fovea.. The fovea is the spot on the back of your eyeball where you have the highest density of

rods and cones.

RAMÓN Y CAJAL VS GOLGI Ramón y Cajal vs Golgi – A neuroscience rivalry. Although it seems obvious to us today that the brain is made up of billions of cells called “neurons,” this was not so when Spainard Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Italian Camillo Golgi were children. When they were growing up in the mid 1800s, it had only been a couple decades since Czech

MUSEUM | EYEWIRE

This is where we present our finished reconstructions in an accessible format. In our viewer, you'll be able to see these finished cells represented in 3D space along with data pertinent to interpreting their significance. The neurons currently displayed here are mouse retinal cells from a

INTO THE BRAIN

This is why we build brain mapping games. Citizen science turns the act of mapping neurons into a 3D puzzle. With no neuroscience experience, people around the world have learned to solve these puzzles, thus mapping neurons and advancing the field of connectomics.Ultimately, it brings us closer to understanding the

brain.

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Microworld: Marathon Results! The Bacterial Marathon has crossed the finish line! This one was completed in an impressive 6 hours and 9 minutes, alongside 3 other cells. This concludes the events of Microworld, but don’t forget to join us for the closing ceremony tomorrow at 4 PM ET. Pop online next week after Happy Hour . A WALK THROUGH EYEWIRE The volume is full of branches — in EyeWire we map one cell at a time to prevent confusion. A player scrolls to navigate through all 256 cross-sections (2D, right) that make the 3D cube. EyeWire starts a player off with a highlighted segment (dark blue). The ABOUT EYEWIRE, A GAME TO MAP THE BRAIN How it works Eyewire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background -- hundreds of thousands of people from around the world already do. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons and advancing our quest to understand ourselves. By joining Eyewire, you can help map the connectome,

NEO | PREVIEW

Solve the puzzles of perception and explore uncharted worlds in Neo, a brand new game from the creators of Eyewire. Adventure deep into cortex, charting new territory with your trusty AI sidekick, MSTY. The expedition begins. 2018.

HORIZONTAL CELL

Horizontal cells are the laterally interconnecting neurons having cell bodies in the inner nuclear layer of the retina of vertebrate eyes. They help integrate and regulate the input from multiple photoreceptor cells. Among their functions, horizontal cells are responsible for allowing eyes to adjust to see well under both bright and dim light THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CRASH COURSE 1 The Autonomic nervous system is further subdivided into Sympathetic, commonly described as “fight or flight” fast response, and Parasympathetic, a complementary system that encourages relaxation. via Crash Course. Together, these systems integrate billions of signals per second to create the sensory and conceptual experience of

being you.

GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER The two largest major subdivisions of the brain are gray (grey) matter and white matter. The brain is a blobby 3D structure that is covered in grey matter, which we call Cortex. Roughly 50% of the brain’s volume is cortex, so it’s a thick layer. Within cortex are found somas (cell bodies) and almost all of the brain’s synapses, from

both

RAMÓN Y CAJAL VS GOLGI Ramón y Cajal vs Golgi – A neuroscience rivalry. Although it seems obvious to us today that the brain is made up of billions of cells called “neurons,” this was not so when Spainard Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Italian Camillo Golgi were children. When they were growing up in the mid 1800s, it had only been a couple decades since Czech A Game to Map the BrainPlay Now

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