Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts. A DC Circuit panel convenes Monday to hear a challenge to a Federal Communications Commission ...

Powerhouse stock exchanges including Cboe Global Markets Inc. and Nasdaq Inc. lost their bid to overturn an SEC fee cap for orders executed on their platforms. The Securities and Exchange Commission ...

In Sierra Club v. FERC, No. 24-1199 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 1, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) ...

The songbird vocal motor nucleus HVC contains cells that project to the basal ganglia, the auditory system, or to downstream vocal motor structures. In this fundamental study, the authors conduct ...

A landmark study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science’s understanding of the way learning takes place. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...

FILE - U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, ...

Judge Neomi Rao issued a strong dissent from the appellate court's modified order blocking the Trump administration from conducting mass firings of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees. A ...

New research shows that the adult brain can generate new neurons that integrate into key motor circuits. The findings demonstrate that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged ...

Explains electric current, highlighting that it originates from a battery and requires a complete circuit to flow. It compares electric current to water flowing through pipes, using meters to ...

“A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” a visual art piece created by the "Creativity Machine," an AI system generated by computer scientist Stephen Thaler (Thaler's complaint to the U.S. District Court of ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

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