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Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

Residents and businesses in the Chicago area are being asked to take steps to protect vulnerable birds as migration alerts are issued Tuesday.

The neural map covers one-third of the fruit fly brain, making it the largest connectome, or wiring diagram, ever worked out.