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Nicole Rust describes her career-changing literary journey of joy, free will and the evolution of a field.

Few institutions have mechanisms for the type of long-term positions that would best benefit the science.

Old heuristics to acknowledge contributors—calling out first and last authors, with everyone else in between—don’t work well for large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, yet they remain the default.

Methodological choices and study-site artifacts confounded an attempt to replicate findings in support of an autism brain-imaging biomarker, according to new unpublished work.

The map diagrams more than half a million neuronal connections in the first complete connectome of Drosophila and holds clues about which brain architectures best support learning.

The new tool may pose challenges for the scientific community, but used wisely, it can help researchers save time and resources.

The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.

The proteins are part of a newly discovered complex that mends genetic damage exclusively in neurons.

After a year of intense growth, funding for biotech is in decline. The result is layoffs and program cuts — and maybe some innovation.

The finding calls into question differences between autistic and non-autistic people on a decades-old theory-of-mind test involving interacting geometric shapes.