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How the Brain Weaves Place and Emotion into Memory
A new study shows how the hippocampus binds place and emotion, replaying threat more vividly during sleep to shape memory, imagination, and future behavior.
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Can Walking Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Walking can have beneficial effects on cognitive performance, but these effects are influenced by sex and genetic status.
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Finding the Meaning of a Word Can Be Its Own Reward
We don’t just learn words, we enjoy learning them. And that enjoyment may be key to remembering what we’ve learned.
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Soccer; Worse Than the Virus, Duller Than Cabbage
Soccer is a conspiracy that saps the essence from Canadian youth. Moreover, the fan base for international soccer brazenly refers to soccer as football. The nerve! Soccer’s assault on hockey and de...
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As Heart, Kidney and Metabolic Health Worsen, Cancer Risk May Rise
Later-stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome were linked with a 25-30% higher risk of cancer, finds a new study.
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Efforts to Boost Cancer Screening Among Homeless People Yield Mixed Results
Breast cancer screening rates increased, but those for colorectal and cervical cancer did not, a recent study found.
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Few Pharmacists Prescribe “Game-Changer” HIV Prevention Drug
UC Berkeley study reveals that less than 3% of California community pharmacies are offering pharmacist-initiated PrEP services.
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A Reversal of the Religious Gender Gap
Across a range of cultures and faiths, women tend to be more religious than men. Surprising new data suggests that may be changing in the U.S., at least for young adults. What explains the shift?
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Identifiable Monsters: The Appeal of Darth Maul
How the new Disney+ series “Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord” highlights our human need to easily identify threatening people.
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The Collateral Challenge of AI Sycophancy
The future of AI guidance will depend on whether models learn to resist our worst requests and whether we learn to value that resistance. Double literacy makes this possible.



