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Teen Discovered With a Memory More Powerful Than 99.9% of The Population
NEWS | 29 September 2026
The research team conducted a series of established tests with KCL remotely, as the boy lived far from the research team. What distinguishes them is the way in which they remember and access autobiographical events – information about what they have experienced, witnessed, and lived through." Few studies have focused on involuntary autobiographical memories among people with HSAM. Compared to existing data from ordinary folks, KCL had a "markedly elevated" frequency of involuntary autobiographical memories arising during his tests. "Its uniqueness may lie not only in what is remembered, but in how autobiographical memories are accessed, highlighting accessibility and retrieval dynamics as key mechanisms underlying exceptional autobiographical memory."

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The Pacific Ocean Is Doing Something Weird as It Warms: Young Water Gets Older, And Old Water Gets Younger
NEWS | 29 September 2026
The team's results, published in AGU Advances, identify and explain what seems to be a paradoxical future scenario: 'young' water getting older, and 'old' water getting younger in the years ahead. The study modeled ocean warming impacts on oxygenation. In the subtropical North Pacific, the thermocline is mostly affected by younger and fresher water from above being mixed in – as this mixing slows down, the water gets older. frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>In the tropical Pacific, the thermocline is more impacted by older, less fresh water from below. "These warming-induced circulation changes play a key role in shaping the Pacific Ocean's physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem response to anthropogenic climate change," write the researchers.

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Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
NEWS | 29 September 2026
But a new study by a team of cancer epidemiologists, published in The Lancet Oncology, highlights just how much infections actually contribute to your cancer risk. Based on global data, infections were linked to 12 percent of all cancers that were diagnosed in 2024. H. pylori is a really common bug: statistically speaking, every second person in the world is infected with it. "Our updated estimates highlight the continued importance of infection control in global cancer prevention strategies," lead author Harriet Rumgay and her colleagues note. The infections linked to those diagnoses were mainly H. pylori and HBV.

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Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Research Finds
NEWS | 29 September 2026
"Venting anger might sound like a good idea, but there's not a shred of scientific evidence to support catharsis theory." The findings show the key to curbing anger is reducing physiological arousal, the authors say, from anger itself or from the otherwise beneficial physical activity it might inspire. Calming activities are more effective than venting, research shows. The review found that most arousal-boosting activities didn't reduce anger, and some increased it, with jogging most likely to do that. Ball sports and other physical activities involving play seemed to reduce physiological arousal, suggesting that exertion might be more useful for reducing anger if it's fun.

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The Age You Reach Menopause May Be Linked to Your Future Brain Health, 18-Year Study Finds
NEWS | 29 September 2026
While the findings don't show a direct cause-and-effect link between earlier menopause and Alzheimer's disease, there were several associations worth highlighting that are worthy of future investigation. Memory and cognition charted against menopause age, projected forward for 30 years. It's possible that menopause age could be a useful earlier indicator to help healthcare professionals assess risk later in life. Memory and cognition charted against menopause age, projected forward for 30 years. It's possible that menopause age could be a useful earlier indicator to help healthcare professionals assess risk later in life.

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SPONSORED | 29 September 2026
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America's Oldest Person Just Turned 116 – Here's What Science Says About How to Live That Long
NEWS | 29 September 2026
The oldest known person in the United States and the second-oldest person in the world just celebrated her 116th birthday. Naomi Whitehead is only the 33rd person in recorded history to reach this ripe old age. Long before scientists understood DNA, hers was quietly shaping an exceptional life. When Whitehead was born, scientists did not yet know that DNA was structured like a double helix or that it carried hereditary genetic information. That's why scientists are on the hunt for markers of longevity among centenarians and supercentenarians (who live past 110).

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The Sun And Moon Can Trigger Earthquakes, And Scientists May Finally Know How
NEWS | 29 September 2026
Cosmically, Earth can be likened to a planetary puppet 'tugged' by the gravitational strings of the Sun and Moon. As the Sun and Moon exert these small but constant tidal stresses on Earth's crust, they have been observed to trigger creeping "slow earthquakes", which release their energy far more slowly than ordinary quakes and are imperceptible to us surface dwellers. First, are seismic events triggered by the tidal stress maximum, when the tidal force is at its peak strength? Secondly, are they triggered near the maximum tidal stressing rate, when the pressure from tidal force is rising the fastest? Megathrust earthquakes are the world's most powerful types of seismic upheaval, with the potential to generate devastating tsunamis and even bring volcanoes back to life.

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Ultrasound Reveals a Deadly Cancer Building Its Own 'Nest' Inside The Brain
NEWS | 29 September 2026
The tumor is glioblastoma, and the way it builds its nest may offer clues about how to fight it. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, can image the entire brain and track both tumors and blood vessels, but isn't well suited to studying brain function in awake, behaving animals. So, they decided to try to combine three techniques into one ultrasound technique that captures more of the evolution of glioblastoma than previous attempts have yielded. The first hurdle to clear was how to make the glioblastoma stand out among the surrounding brain tissue in the ultrasound images. Trimodal ultrasound images show the glioblastoma tumor (orange-red) growing over 11 days in a mouse brain, alongside the surrounding blood vessels (white) and visually evoked brain activity (green).

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Scientists Blasted Water With Light 10 Billion Times Brighter Than Sunlight. It Still Didn't Evaporate Faster.
NEWS | 29 September 2026
Yet scientists have reported multiple lines of evidence for this "photomolecular effect", with ostensibly major applications in climate forecasting and water desalination. First, the researchers subjected a pure water sample to blue, green, and red visible light, using a confocal displacement sensor to track the water's surface height under "light on" and "light off" conditions across two humidity environments. The vibrational probe revealed no measurable change in the structure of interfacial water under visible light. "Within the experimentally accessible regime investigated here, no evidence is found for a nonthermal visible light–driven modification of interfacial water or evaporation dynamics," they add. Even intense ultrafast pulses of light produced no change in the structure of interfacial water.

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Physicists Created a Record-Breaking Schrödinger's Cat With Some of The Weirdest Atoms in Physics
NEWS | 29 September 2026
(Hweimer/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)And now it's the Rydberg atom's turn to shine. Because they're so loosey-goosey, Rydberg atoms behave in an exaggerated way, which makes them useful for conducting experiments. In particular, one of those exaggerated behaviors is how strongly Rydberg atoms interact with each other. Hegels and his colleagues reached 2.4, sailing past the previous record of 1.4 for this specific kind of optical cat state. Six optical Schrödinger cat states created in the experiment, growing larger from left to right.

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Even Very Slow Running Can Benefit The Brain, Study Suggests
NEWS | 29 September 2026
After 10 minutes of very slow running (blue), participants reported feeling more alert (A) and more pleasant (B) than after 10 minutes of sitting still (grey). But they do suggest that very slow running positively affects both executive function and mood in the short term. That said, the researchers in the present study found that among their small group of young participants, head acceleration, influenced by very slow running, was positively correlated with exercise-induced pleasure levels. (Crum et al., Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2022)In fact, slow running may have been more important to our survival as a species than speed. When the legs get moving, even at a slow pace, they seem to get the brain moving too.

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Common Bone Health Supplements Do Little to Prevent Fractures, Major Review Finds
NEWS | 29 September 2026
Calcium and vitamin D help build strong, healthy bones, but taking these nutrients as supplements is not necessarily good for musculoskeletal health. Today, patients at risk of osteoporosis are often advised to take vitamin D supplements and sometimes calcium supplements, too, depending on their circulating levels. More recent reviews have failed to uncover a link between vitamin D supplements and lower fracture rates. For instance, a recent systematic review of 34 health guidelines found that 70 percent recommended or suggested vitamin D supplements for fracture prevention or general health. "This rationale does not apply to vitamin D monotherapy, however, as our findings clearly demonstrated no benefit."

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Radiation Exposure May Trigger a Key Feature of Alzheimer's in The Brain
NEWS | 29 September 2026
Others are environmental factors – contributions to Alzheimer's risk from our surroundings – and exposure to ionizing radiation falls into this category. Immunol., 2026)"Human exposure to ionizing radiation is remarkably common," write the researchers in their published paper. "The cognitive consequences of these exposures, particularly the potential for radiation to initiate or accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are therefore relevant to an expanding population." "These structural and metabolic changes accumulate over time, shaping the clinical trajectory from radiation exposure to cognitive decline," writes the team. Taken as a whole though, it's evidence that this is another avenue worth pursuing in Alzheimer's research.