Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain ...

Using a piece of that mouse's brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch-like fibers through a surprising 500 ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off ...