Design
Grid of the Day: The Brain
Our minds are laid out like Manhattan's streets.
This is your brain on urban planning.
In a new study in Science, researchers looked at the network of fibers that carry signals from one part of the brain to the other. They unocvered a remarkably organized three-dimensional grid. According to study author Van Wedeen, the grid is a little like Manhattan "with streets running in two dimension and then the elevators in the buildings in the third dimension."