Scientists map activity in cubic millimeter of mouse brain

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Doesn't sound that impressive? Well...

In 1979, Francis Crick, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist, concluded that the anatomy and activity in just a cubic millimeter of brain matter would forever exceed our understanding.

"It is no use asking for the impossible," Dr. Crick wrote.

Forty-six years later, a team of more than 100 scientists has achieved that impossible, by recording the cellular activity and mapping the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse's brain — less than one percent of its full volume. In accomplishing this feat, they amassed 1.6 petabytes of data — the equivalent of 22 years of nonstop high-definition video.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/science/neuroscience-brain-mice-map.html

If this were to follow the same trajectory as genome mapping...