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Why do people with dementia 'come back’ before death?
Cosmos· 4 days agoAlthough the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories...
'Mathematical microscope' reveals novel, energy-efficient mechanism of working memory that works...
Science Daily· 7 days agoThe discovery is published in the journal Nature Communications. This is your working memory failing. Working memory is defined as remembering some information ...
Google co-founder on the ideal form factor for AI hardware (and his Google Glass regrets)
ZDNet· 4 hours agoFollowing the opening day keynote, in a rather intimate Q&A session with members of the press, Brin...
A unique concert for boy battling muscular dystrophy
ABC7 New York· 11 hours agoAustin was 5 months old when his mom, Hannah Lowe, learned her son has a rare form of muscular dystrophy called L-CMD. "It's caused by a single letter...
Identity Crisis: Climate Destroying Wonders That Gave US Parks Their Names
International Business Times· 2 days agoGlacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are...
The Secret to Waking up Alert and Refreshed
Dr. Samantha Boardman via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoGo Dark The simple hack of wearing a sleep mask can boost how alert you feel the following day. Masks help sleepers spend more time in the deepest phase...
Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning
NPR· 4 days agoWriting by hand also improves memory and recall of words, laying down the foundations of literacy...
“Hack Your Health”: 6 things we learned from Netflix’s documentary about the human gut microbiome
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 days agoVariety of fruits and vegetables Getty Images/Tanja Ivanova In the past 15 years, scientists have...
Can Forgetting Help You Remember?
The New Yorker· 2 days agoIn “Why We Remember” (Doubleday), Charan Ranganath, a neuropsychologist at U.C. Davis, writes that the question he always gets when he mentions that he...
Brain Science Has Discovered New Drug-Free Approaches for the Anxious Adolescent
Scientific American· 17 hours agoAdolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt...
