Eyewire Goes Spelunking: Marathon Results
Woohoo, we managed to finish the Karst Marathon in 5 hours and 16 minutes! This small but mighty cell came in at …
Spelunking Challenge: Karst Marathon
Karst is a fascinating type of landscape that contains caves, sinkholes, and underground rivers. Karst caves are also called “solution” caves, and …
Spelunking Challenge: Sea Cave Trivia
Sea caves form around a rocky coast line, where the ocean etches away at the cliff face in a process called mechanical …
Spelunking Challenge: Speleogens vs Speleothems
You probably remember stalactites and stalagmites from school – (remember “c” for “ceiling,” and “g” for “ground). But let’s try exploring another …
Spelunking Challenge: Lava Tube Happy Hours
While many caves form by the slow erosion of minerals over time, lava tubes are a speedy form of cave creation. These …
Axon vs Dendrite: Neuroscience Knockout
Can’t get enough Versus competitions? Can’t get enough neuroscience? Don’t worry, we’re here with a head-to-head battle that will satisfy your cravings …
Pyr Science Q&A
On Thursday, July 29, 2021, the most detailed examination of mammalian brain circuitry to date was released from Princeton University’s Seung Lab, The …
Pyr Gallery of Cortical Cell Types
Explore a dozen wild and giant cells from the microns dataset, a cubic millimeter of cortex containing 200,000 neurons and nearly 500 …
Mouse vs Zebrafish: Zebrafish wins!
We had a little hiccup during this competition and it was accidentally a 2 part competition instead of one! But due to …
Mouse vs Zebrafish: Scientific face-off
If you’ve played Eyewire for awhile you may be familiar with our two datasets – e2198 and the zfish dataset (available to …
Somas vs Synapses: Special Brain Awareness Week Versus
It’s Brain Awareness Week, a once-a-year celebration of all things cerebral. Tons of fun events are taking place on the interwebs, from …
Eyewire prepares to enter… the Outer Realms!
You’re invited to join a journey to the edge of the neuroverse and venture into unknown territory. With the Amacrine Adventures wrapping …