ALT 🧠 A Fruit Fly Brain Has Been Mapped in Extraordinary Detail Scientists have released a massive wiring map of a fruit fly nervous system, covering about **166,700 neurons and millions of connections**. Now, researchers and developers can use this open dataset to place simulated fly-brain circuits into **robots, games, and digital environments**. One reported experiment even connected a fly-brain model to chess. But the claimed 11-move win has **not been independently validated or peer-reviewed**, so it doesn’t prove a fruit fly brain can outthink advanced AI. The real breakthrough is even more fascinating: scientists can now explore how a biological brain’s wiring behaves inside completely new digital worlds. **Source:** HHMI Janelia & Google Research. *FlyWire Connectome Project.*
ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair
ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair
ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair