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Sebastian Seung on the connectome

Alok Jha meets neuroscientist Sebastian Seung who is Professor of computational neuroscience at MIT and the author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. Sebastian discusses our growing understanding of the brain's connections and systems, the connectome and it's correlation to the human genome. He also shows us how we can all get involved as citizen scientists in the mapping...


SUNDAY 15. JULY 2012


Starwatch: Lyra

At the risk of perpetuating what one reader has characterised as a cruel joke given Britain's appalling weather, our focus this month is on one of the smaller but most interesting constellations in our summer night sky. Assuming, that is, that the clouds do part eventually.Lyra and its bright star Vega stand some 15° S of the zenith at midnight BST tonight and are charted in detail above. Vega,...

Weatherwatch: Meteosat-10 launched to track weather systems

Europe's latest weather satellite blasted off into space on 5 July on board its Ariane rocket. Meteosat-10 is now being manoeuvred into a geostationary position, 36,000km above the Earth, over the Gulf of Guinea on the equator.By 6 August the satellite will produce detailed images of Europe and Africa every 15 minutes; it will be ideal for tracking dangerous thunderstorms and watching weather...


SATURDAY 14. JULY 2012



FRIDAY 13. JULY 2012