Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form into living creatures after their cells are broken apart through a fine mesh screen — demonstrating that ...
Recently, I was scrolling TikTok when my brain failed me. I watched a video of Donald Trump berating CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins for “not smiling”, after she questioned him on matters concerning ...
They found that young and old adults with healthy cognition generated neurons, a process called neurogenesis, at high levels for their age. The team estimated that the new neurons made up only a small ...
According to Peter C. Grace in “The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA,” such bookworms did indeed play a role at the height of the Cold War—if not in saving the ...
A weather watchdog has reported an uptick in Earth’s “hum-like” heartbeat, raising concerns that it could be affecting people’s brains. Known as Schumann Resonance, this natural electromagnetic ...
👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Scientists have discovered a key to staying mentally fit in old age. This is how the brains of “SuperAgers” — people who have razor-sharp minds in their 80s and 90s — differ ...
Aficionados of internet discourse may recall the vogue for deeming things “stochastic terrorism.” A stochastic process has a strong element of randomness, even when the overall result is predictable.
On the first day of classes last fall, I stood at the front of a large lecture room and watched as one hundred and twenty undergraduates unzipped their backpacks. O n the first day of classes last ...
Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that ...
Linda Walker has become the name attached to a viral Chinese short drama that viewers have been chasing across YouTube, Dailymotion and TikTok through late 2025 and into 2026, often under the title ...
Linda Walker has become a familiar name on social media, with many praising her brilliance, grit, and unshakeable confidence. She is the protagonist of the viral Chinese digital production 'The ...
People who have razor-sharp minds in their 80s and 90s — known as “SuperAgers” — produce twice the number of young neurons as cognitively healthy adults and 2.5 times as many as people with ...