智能架构
Self portrait, Image credit: Ramsey Wilcox 为什么心智的统一性来自大脑整体结构，而不是某个单一脑区 编者按 在现代神经科学的长久历史中，对智能的探索始终被视为一场绘制大脑图谱的尝…
光落羽间
光落羽间 刘奋强的获奖摄影作品《抵达》背后的故事 《抵达》，2026年世界自然摄影奖，鸟类行为组金奖。 每 年一月底至二月初，许多大白鹭都会聚集在美国Kraft Azalea Garden，开启它们的繁殖季节。它们如期而…
Where Light Meets Wings
Each year, from late January to early February, Great Egrets gather at Kraft Azalea Garden in Central Florida, marking the beginning of their breeding season. Their timely return always fills me with excitement—it means I once again have the opportunity to capture fleeting, poetic moments in nature…
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永恒不变之分子
Holly Rucker，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校细菌学系 Kaçar 实验室博士候选人。她的研究论文 “Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope …
The Molecule That Did Not Change
Holly Rucker, doctoral candidate in the Kaçar Lab, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her study “Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope biosignatures over two billion years” was published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2026. Photo: Kaçar Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Holly Rucker on resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme, reading life from rocks, and what it
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以光解读大脑
黄声希教授，莱斯大学电气与计算机工程及生物工程副教授，领导 SCOPE 实验室。在那里，光成为读取细胞分子生命的一种语言。图片来源：Jeff Fitlow / Rice University 王子洋，莱斯大学电气与计算机…
The Brain Read by Light
Prof. Shengxi Huang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering at Rice University, leads the SCOPE Lab, where light becomes a language for reading the molecular life of cells.Image: Jeff Fitlow / Rice University Ziyang Wang, Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, works at the intersection of Raman spectroscopy
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当蘑菇设计建筑
鸟瞰图清晰呈现蘑菇馆的椭球形混凝土壳体，以及为室内引入自然采光的圆形天窗。 建筑：OMA / 重松象平（Shohei Shigematsu）。摄影：Rafael Gamo 在墨西哥 Casa Wabi，OMA 重松象平以…
When Mushrooms Design the Building
An aerial view reveals the pavilion’s ellipsoidal concrete shell, punctured by a circular oculus that brings daylight into the interior chamber. Architecture: OMA / Shohei Shigematsu. Photograph: Rafael Gamo At Casa Wabi in Mexico, Shohei Shigematsu, head of OMA’s New York office, handed the design brief to a living organism and let the mushroom answer
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The Architecture of Intelligence
Ramsey Wilcox. Image courtesy of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Notre Dame How the brain’s global organization, not any single region, gives rise to the mind’s remarkable unity Editor’s Note For much of modern neuroscience, the search for intelligence resembled a cartographic exercise. Researchers mapped the brain as though its most complex abilities might
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