Ultra-high resolution 3D map of a human brain

Mapping the brain is all the rage. In 2009, the National Institutes of Health announced the Human Connectome Project, an ambitious multimillion-dollar initiative to produce a detailed map of the long-range connections in the human brain. Two years later, the Allen Institute for Brain Science launched the Allen Brain Atlas, a collection of online public resources that integrate information about gene activity with neuroanatomical data. And earlier this year, President Obama announced the Brain Activity Map project, which aims to "reconstruct the full record of neural activity across complete neural circuits. Now an international team of researchers led by Katrin Amunts of the Ju lich Research Center in Germany has created the most detailed map yet of the human brain.