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·May 17, 2020·4 min read

New research finds ‘Dr. Google’ is almost always wrong

Turning to Google for medical advice or self-diagnosis may be doing more harm than good. A new study reveals online symptom checkers are only accurate about one-third of the time.

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·January 22, 2020·5 min read

Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date

FlyEM, a team of scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has released the most complete map of the fly brain ever created. The map pinpoints millions of connections between 25,000 neurons. The researchers have made the data free online, along with all of the tools necessary to use it.

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·November 15, 2016·4 min read

What Can Google Tell Us About ‘the Memory Web’ in the Brain?

A new study helps to untangle the memory web by shedding light on how neurons in areas of the brain associated with memory provide long term coding of associations between concepts.