Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.
In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain.
Despite its diminutive size, the organ packs almost 500 feet of wiring and 54.5 million synapses into the size of a grain of sand — an astonishing feat of computational neurology research that allows scientists to better understand how signals travel throughout the brain.
And thanks to significant advances of some of the world’s most capable supercomputers, researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are now aiming their sights at a far more ambitious goal: a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.
Previous attempts, dating back a decade, like the Human Brain Project, fell largely flat, despite considerable government funding.
