The Transmitter

Features

A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.

*Winner of the 2025 Grand Neal Award, Neal Award for best single article and AZBEES Silver National Award for impact/investigative

Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier

News

How developing neurons simplify their search for a synaptic mate

Exclusive: Recruitment issues jeopardize ambitious plan for human brain atlas

What infant fMRI is revealing about the developing mind

Neuroscience Ph.D. programs adjust admissions in response to U.S. funding uncertainty

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux

Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory

The non-model organism ‘renaissance’ has arrived

Data access changes to UK Biobank stir unease in neuroscientists

*Winner of the 2025 AZBEES Bronze Regional Award for enterprise news story

How inbreeding almost tanked an up-and-coming model of Alzheimer’s disease

Two studies fail to replicate ‘holy grail’ DIANA fMRI method for detecting neural activity

Knowledge gaps in cephalopod care could stall welfare standards

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Features

Students protested the police. The university called the cops. Faculty members want answers.

Where do colleges’ antiracism centers go from here?

News

Colleges need to protect valuable collections from climate change. A new project aims to help.

Even with tenure, women are more likely to leave higher ed

Other outlets

Features

Abortion training in Texas is vanishing // The Texas Observer

*2nd place winner of the 2023 Association of Healthcare Journalists award, student category

Current treatments for cramps aren’t cutting it. Why aren’t there better options? // STAT News

News

California schools start hatching heat plans as the planet warms // KFF Health News

Can pathogens at the opera haunt a performance? // Smithsonian Magazine