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2021-10-02 20:00:04 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-battles-historic-drought-with-5-2-billion/ Open / Comment

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2021-10-02 19:59:11 Secret cave chamber may be one of the last Neanderthal hideouts

A cave chamber sealed off by sand for some 40,000 years has been discovered in Vanguard Cave in Gibraltar — a finding that could reveal more about the Neanderthals who lived in the area around that time. 

"Given that the sand sealing the chamber was [40,000] years old, and that the chamber was therefore older, it must have been Neanderthals," who lived in Eurasia from about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago and were likely using the cave,  Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar National Museum, told Live Science in an email. 


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2021-10-02 19:58:50 https://www.sciencealert.com/groundbreaking-vision-experiment-shows-what-we-what-we-should-have-seen-all-along Open / Comment

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2021-10-02 19:58:27 Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain Can Improve Episodic Memory

Based on current knowledge of the brain and the effects rTMS, the researchers hypothesized that they could improve episodic memory, and in the process, generate targets for future memory-related therapies.

The researchers first analyzed past data from 40 college students who had been asked to memorize lists of words. Half of the students received slow rTMS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex while trying to memorize the words, and the other half received rTMS over a control region of the brain. In a new experiment, researchers collected data from 24 college students who each performed a similar memory task under both rTMS conditions.

Analysis of both datasets revealed that memory performance was better for words that were memorized while the left prefrontal cortex was being stimulated. Examining the EEG data that was recorded during the experiments, the researchers found that the slow rTMS applied to the prefrontal region led to reduced power of low-frequency (beta) waves in the parietal region of the brain, which is known to be involved in attention and perception.


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