We Make Memories as Babies—So Why Do We Forget Them? MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults By Chris Simms & Nature magazine Brain scans suggest that an infant’s hippocampus can encode memories. StockPlanets/Getty Images Babies as young as one year […]
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Whether captured in declassified military footage or in smartphone videos uploaded to social media, UFOs are swarming Earth’s skies and demonstrating capabilities so astonishing that they must represent technologies that are advanced beyond any available on Earth. Clearly, these sightings point to the involvement of space aliens—or perhaps just a global cabal of nefarious humans
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Could a Blood Test One Day Predict Postpartum Depression? Too few people get diagnosed and treated for postpartum depression. But a blood test could change that By Sara Novak edited by Tanya Lewis Elena Medvedeva/Getty Images Postpartum depression (PPD) affects 10 to 20 percent of birthing parents globally with debilitating effects, including depression, severe mood
Many people in the U.S. today have no direct experience with measles, a disease that used to infect three or four million people in the nation every year before vaccines became available in 1963. Adults may remember they were vaccinated against the disease in childhood or have only a vague memory the disease is associated
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Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us last year, refusing our request for the data behind a study that we deemed to have fatal statistical
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How Researchers Found a Greener Way to Make Fuel for Nuclear Fusion—By Accident Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods do By Jacek Krywko edited by Andrea Thompson All the nuclear power
Google owner Alphabet will buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion — in a deal set to boost the tech giant’s in-house cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial intelligence growth. If closed, the cash transaction, announced Tuesday, would become Google’s most expensive acquisition in the company’s 25-year history. Wiz rejected a reported $23 billion buyout proposal
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It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two
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A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image released Monday shows the XB-1 aircraft, which Boom Supersonic said is the “first civil supersonic jet made in America,” during its second
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Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought nearly 14 years ago for $8.5 billion. “We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub,” already used by hundreds of millions of people at work, school and
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