Here are 8 remarkable scientific firsts of 2024

Each year, scientists break new ground in their quest to understand life and the mysteries of the cosmos. Here are eight milestones in 2024 that caught our attention

Reading a fruit fly’s mind

The first complete map of a fruit fly’s brain details all 139,255 nerve cells and the 54.5 million connections between them. It’s the largest brain map made of any animal, even though the fruit fly’s brain is poppy seed–sized (SN: 11/2/24, p. 32). The map could lead to a deeper understanding of how information flows in the brain.

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