Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
Cataloguing its components may help understand how it works
Lord Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic nucleus, divided science into physics and stamp collecting. (He was, after all, a physicist.) But he had a point. Other sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, geology and, most notably, biology, rely a lot on collecting things (not literally, in the case of astronomy) and classifying them in various ways that would delight philatelists. Physics, by contrast, relies on analysing phenomena.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “More stamps for the album”
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