Study uncovers neural mechanisms behind memory stabilization
Newly decoded brain circuits make memories more stable as part of learning, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Health researchers.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,345
Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Trump administration sets rules to bar groups it opposes from loan relief
Advocates say new rules let Education Department to politically punish groups working on immigration, transgender care.
After yet more atrocities in Sudan, what will end the conflict?
Reports of massacres by Rapid Support Forces in North Darfur’s city of el-Fasher.
White South Africans to the front of the line as Trump slashes refugee limit
President Tweety McTreason is slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States, and people fleeing war-torn countries, human rights abuses and catastrophes will
Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited
The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas surrounding it. (Image
This week’s Short Wave news roundup
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to
Scientists thought this fossil was a teen T. rex. Turns out it’s a new tyrannosaur
A new look at the “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex was not the only tyrannosaur roaming the land. (Image credit: Anthony Hutchings)
Andrew formerly known as Prince: Charles strips title amid Epstein scandal
After a year of embarrassing sex allegations related to Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew on Thursday was stripped of his title by Buckingham Palace.
Trump seeks to kill all medical care for trans youth by defunding hospitals that provide it
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to end all Medicaid and Medicare funding for young people’s gender-affirming care (GAC), according to newly
Five charged in overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson
The men are accused of running a drug ring in New York City that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media.
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can’t remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
‘Can’t go back’ – families in violence-hit Indian state fear resettlement deadline
Families displaced by the ongoing ethnic conflict are anxious as a government deadline to shut down relief camps nears.