Larry D. Greenfield has always been partial to contraptions. As a teen in Canoga Park, California, in the mid-to-late 1950s, he installed a closet door switch that would turn the closet light on and off  when the door opened and closed. He also wired the whole backyard with lighting without any instructions—or his parents' permission, but with the tacit blessing of his mother.

Assistant Professor Nicola Allen has joined one of the most elite global communities, the World Economic Forum’s Young Scientists, who comprise today’s “most forward-thinking and advanced scientific minds” under the age of 40.

Silvana Konermann, a research associate in the lab of Helmsley-Salk Fellow Patrick Hsu, was chosen as one of 15 inaugural Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellows. Each fellow will receive up to $1.4 million in funding over eight years.

Salk Institute scientists will lead a $25 million, five-year initiative to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain by systematically identifying and cataloging cell types across the mammalian brain, the National Institutes of Health has announced.