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The Brain May Not Need Full Sleep To Recover, New Research Finds

A new study suggests that reproducing a crucial sleep-like brain pattern in awake animals may help preserve memory and learning abilities. What if part of the brain could get some of the benefits of sleep without the rest of the brain ever going offline? A new NIH-funded study suggests that may be possible. Researchers found [...]

Photography Educator: Rachel Boillot

Photography Educator is a monthly series on Lenscratch. Once a month, we celebrate a dedicated photography teacher by sharing their insights, strategies and excellence in inspiring students of all ages. These educators play a vital role in student development, acting as mentors and guides who create environments where students feel valued and supported, fostering confidence and resilience.…

Win11 ram bsod problems

Thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to help. I’m using an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 laptop. The laptop has DDR5 Crucial 4800 MHz CL40 RAM modules, 16+16 GB for a total of 32 GB. I recently switched to Windows 11, and when both RAM sticks are installed together, I constantly get blue screens. I tested the RAMs in different combinations; the RAM sticks are fine, and the slots are also fine. The…

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Hidden space between brain cells is now a new Alzheimer’s target

One of the biggest mysteries in neuroscience is why women account for nearly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s disease cases. Now, we may be a step closer to understanding this phenomenon, with new findings that highlight an overlooked part of the brain that appears to fail as estrogen levels fall with age.

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Hailey Sadler: Missing Home

“We’re all one crisis away from being a refugee.” — Hailey Sadler As a young congressional staffer, Hailey Sadler spent many hours focused on national security and defense issues. But it was the human impact of conflict that most passionately captured her attention. So after a few years, she turned to photography to explores how individuals

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Eugenia Brodsky: Chrysanthemum

Before the white chrysanthemum the scissors hesitate a moment — Yosa Buson This poem touched me with a simple truth: even death pauses before the beauty of life. It made me realize what stops time for me—my children, the most fragile and tender beauty I know. Through them, childhood became in my mind, a fleeting

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New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain

A new study reveals that the brain may continue interpreting language and predicting information even while unconscious under anesthesia. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that the human brain can continue carrying out complex language processing even while a person is unconscious under general anesthesia. The study, published in Nature, challenges long-standing ideas [...]

Can Scotch tape record information like audio tape?

Back in the olden days of the previous millennium, long before the digital revolution compressed entire albums and even movies into ultra-high-fidelity files that users could download in seconds, hundreds of millions of people relied on physical tape to store albums on cassettes (or 8-tracks) and video on low-resolution VHS cassettes.

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Cozette Russell in Conversation With Douglas Breault

Cozette Russell builds densely shadowed worlds that reverberate through imagery and surface, considering time as a tactile material in itself. Intimate moments of her life are split, repeated, and coerced into forms that echo a rhythmic heartbeat on their own. Russell’s work is autobiographical and closely questions overlapping elements of care, feminism, and the many

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