Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — transformed the understanding of memory, revealing that a key structure in the brain can be strengthened like a muscle, died on Jan. 4 in London. She was 54. Her death, at a hospice facility, was […]
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The nursery at RiverSpring Residences in the Bronx is a sunny, inviting space outfitted with a bassinet, a crib with a musical mobile, a few toys, bottles, picture books for bedtime reading and a rack of clothing in tiny sizes. The other morning, Wilma Rosa was there trying to soothe one of its cranky, small […]
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Medical advances have beaten back many relentless assassins in recent decades, such as cancer and heart disease. A wide range of treatments share credit: surgery, medicines, radiation, genetic therapies and healthful habits. Mortality rates for those two diseases, the top causes of death in the United States, have fallen sharply. But in an aging population, […]
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One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse. Walk, don’t run.” We didn’t run. But we wanted to. I ended up perched with the rest of my second-grade class on a hard wooden pew in the balcony of our […]
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“I like punctuality, it’s a virtue I have learned to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth chapter of his autobiography, to be published on Tuesday in 18 languages, adding that he considers it “a sign of good manners and respect, to arrive promptly.” Unfortunately, as a newborn, Francis writes, he arrived a week late, […]
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On the first day of your vacation in a new city, your explorations expose you to innumerable individual places. While the memories of these spots (like a beautiful garden on a quiet side street) feel immediately indelible, it might be days before you have enough intuition about the neighborhood to direct a newer tourist to […]
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Corsair’s Custom Lab, for designing and customizing gear, has a brand new addition coming to it this year: RAM. Just make sure your tempered glass case is ready for displaying them. Announced in a press release for CES 2025, one of the year’s biggest tech conferences, Corsair’s Vengeance RAM will be customisable at some point […]
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While Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200S series of processors hasn’t been setting records for gaming performance, they were the first chips on the block to support the newest tech in the RAM world, CUDIMMs. And now Corsair has released its first clock driver RAM sticks, with speeds of up to 9,600 MT/s. If you’re wondering […]
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Scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to optical memory storage, potentially revitalizing CDs with high-density data storage capabilities. The research, published in Physical Review Research, addresses limitations in traditional optical storage where data density is restricted by the diffraction limit of light—the inability to store bits […]
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