Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

More information: Mingzhen Lu et al, A first-principles mathematical model integrates the disparate timescales of human learning, npj Complexity (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44260-025-00039-x ...