Alzheimer’s has been an insidious thief, insinuating itself into the brain years sometimes decades prior to memory loss and confusion becoming apparent. But what if a straightforward blood test could detect it more than 10 years before symptoms arise? A groundbreaking study suggests that a little-known protein, beta-synuclein, could be the early warning signal we’ve ...
Somewhere behind your eyes, in a space smaller than a shoebox, sits a living network with an estimated storage capacity of 2.5 petabytes. That sounds like science fiction, yet neuroscientists are steadily uncovering just how absurdly efficient the human brain is at packing, compressing, and reshaping information. At a time when cloud storage farms ...
For millennia, people have seen intelligence as a singular evolutionary triumph, a pinnacle attained only by mammals, with primates (and finally, humans) at the top. But apparently nature had other ideas. Modern ground-breaking studies show that intelligence developed twice in two quite different spheres of life: mammals and birds, not once. Birds have long surprised ...
