The inner workings of the human brain are still a fairly mysterious frontier despite all we’ve learned in recent decades, but a recently-completed initiative should provide a better map of what’s inside our heads than anything we’ve seen thus far. According toNature, scientists have successfully mapped the entirety of a human brain in 3D — a laborious process that involved cutting the brain of a 65-year-old woman into 7,400 slices, each of which is thinner than a human hair. The sections were then imaged by microscope over the course of 1,000 hours; the entire scanning process generated about 9 terabytes of data, which supercomputers in Canada and Germany spend years processing to build the 3D model.
via The Verge
