For the first time, Florian Engert and his team mapped every firing neuron in a living animal ... could zap retinas. In a typical gesture, Engert duct-taped the lab’s safety goggles to the ...

Found in 1881 and described in 1926 by Constantin von Economo, the large, spindle-shaped brain cell (right) has fewer branches than a typical neuron (left). K.K. Watson, T.K. Jones & J.M. Allman ...