Summary: Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells, serve as active gatekeepers of long-term memory stability. By identifying a key scaffolding protein called ankyrin-2 (Ank2), the team unmasked a ...

A quiet shift in memory can begin long before a diagnosis of dementia. These early changes often pass unnoticed, even as the ...

A robot on a factory floor can carry parts, scan shelves, and move around people with growing skill. What it still struggles ...

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified ...

Recent technological advances and the introduction of new digital media platforms have dramatically changed how people learn and source information about topics that interest them. Some recent studies ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

For investors worried that their bond portfolios may be too sensitive to interest rate increases, short-term bond funds can help reduce this risk, since shorter-term bonds fall less when rates rise.

Building a model of the phenomenon you’re studying can help you understand how that thing works. Roadmaps are models of the highways and roads between here and there. We use them to predict how we ...

Starting a short-term rental business in popular tourist destinations like Destin, Florida, or Vail, Colorado, may have strong appeal, but a new report suggests that some small and mid-sized cities ...