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Scientists Discover Startling Trick to Defeat Insomnia

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[ad_1] Image by Getty / Futurism Insomnia is a curse we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemy — and scientists have discovered a startlingly simple lifestyle change that appears to be very statistically effective at preventing it. In a new study published in the journal Sleep Health, researchers from Columbia and the University of Chicago report that eating a full day’s serving worth of fruits and vegetables strongly appears to help people sleep more soundly throughout the night. Interrupted sleep, which is known as “sleep fragmentation” to researchers, has been found to induce a litany of grim health outcomes ranging from heart failure to diabetes and cognitive problems to cognitive dysfunction. One major culprit might be a familiar one to many participants in our industrial food system: poor nutrition lacking in fresh fruits and veggies. The researchers recruited 34 healthy young adults with an average age of 28 years old who had no known sleep issues before. The participants were tasked with tagging their food input into an app for 201 days, and wore wrist monitors …

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats

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[ad_1] “What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,” a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says. “I need details, I’m 66 and single. I’m from Iowa and open to moving to a new country if I can find a younger woman.” The chatbot responded enthusiastically: “You’re looking for a fresh start and love in a new place. That’s exciting!” before suggesting “Mediterranean countries like Spain or Italy, or even countries in Eastern Europe.” This is just one of many seemingly personal conversations that can be publicly viewed on Meta AI, a chatbot platform that doubles as a social feed and launched in April. Within the Meta AI app, a “discover” tab shows a timeline of other people’s interactions with the chatbot; a short scroll down on the Meta AI website is an extensive collage. While some of the highlighted queries and answers are innocuous—trip itineraries, recipe advice—others reveal locations, telephone numbers, and other sensitive information, all tied to user names and profile photos. Calli Schroeder, senior counsel for the …

Scientists discover evidence of memory storage outside the brain

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[ad_1] Memory doesn’t live only in the brain. Scientists are uncovering signs that cells throughout the body can remember, too. These findings are starting to challenge old ideas about how and where memory is stored in the body. This shift in thinking opens up new ways to explore how we learn and how memories form. It also hints at better tools for improving education and treating memory-related diseases. What once seemed like a purely brain-bound process may be far more widespread—and more accessible to science. Memory and the Massed-Spaced Effect At the core of this breakthrough is something called the massed-spaced effect, also known as the spacing effect. First noted by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, this principle shows that spreading out learning sessions boosts memory more than cramming. And it’s not just a human quirk—researchers have seen it in everything from fruit flies to mammals. An NYU researcher administers chemical signals to non-neural cells grown in a culture plate. (CREDIT: Nikolay Kukushkin) Until recently, this effect was linked only to the brain’s wiring. Researchers knew molecules …

Neuroscientists discover specific brain cells that enable intelligent behavior

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[ad_1] Stay informed on the latest psychology and neuroscience research—follow PsyPost on LinkedIn for daily updates and insights. For decades, neuroscientists have developed mathematical frameworks to explain how brain activity drives behaviour in predictable, repetitive scenarios, such as while playing a game. These algorithms have not only described brain cell activity with remarkable precision but also helped develop artificial intelligence with superhuman achievements in specific tasks, such as playing Atari or Go. Yet these frameworks fall short of capturing the essence of human and animal behaviour: our extraordinary ability to generalise, infer and adapt. Our study, published in Nature late last year, provides insights into how brain cells in mice enable this more complex, intelligent behaviour. Unlike machines, humans and animals can flexibly navigate new challenges. Every day, we solve new problems by generalising from our knowledge or drawing from our experiences. We cook new recipes, meet new people, take a new path – and we can imagine the aftermath of entirely novel choices. It was in the mid-20th century that psychologist Edward Tolman described …

Researchers Discover that Humans Give Off Light – OpentheWord.org

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[ad_1] In 2019, researchers at Chicago’s Northwestern University released photos of a flash of light that occurs at conception, when sperm fertilizes an egg, This is caused as the sperm releases calcium which in turn releases zinc in the egg, causing the light flash. Now researchers from the University of Calgary (Canada) are stating that the living body releases a low emission light, which is extinguished at death, Faithwire reports. The light which was first discovered in 2009 is not bright enough to be seen by the naked eye. “The fact that ultraweak photon emission is a real thing is undeniable at this point,” said the study’s lead author, Dan Oblak, in an interview with New Scientist. “This really shows that this is not just an imperfection or caused by other biological processes. It’s really something that comes from all living things.” The light is created by the Mitochondria located inside each cell. This is referred to as the cell’s ‘powerhouse’ or furnace, because it creates most of the cell’s energy, both bioelectrical and heat This is …

How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities

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[ad_1] The idea of dis­cov­er­ing a lost ancient city under­ground has long cap­tured the human imag­i­na­tion. But why are the aban­doned built envi­ron­ments of those fan­tasies always buried? The answer, in large part, is that such places do indeed exist under our feet, at least in cer­tain parts of the world. When archae­ol­o­gists start­ed dig­ging under the Roman Forum, says the nar­ra­tion of the new Pri­mal Space video above, “they uncov­ered an entire world of ruins deep under­ground that had­n’t been seen for cen­turies.” The even old­er city of Troy “was rebuilt ten times, form­ing ten dis­tinct lay­ers, all built direct­ly on top of each oth­er.” A geo­log­i­cal dig is always a jour­ney back in time, but there even more so. Each civ­i­liza­tion has its own rea­sons for this kind of phys­i­cal accre­tion. “After the great fire of Rome in the first cen­tu­ry, most of the city had to be rebuilt. But instead of clear­ing away the rub­ble, it was quick­er and eas­i­er to sim­ply flat­ten it out and build on top.” There­after, peri­od­ic dis­as­ters …

The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible

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[ad_1] The Lord said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody, floody; then to get those chil­dren out of the mud­dy, mud­dy; then to build him an arky, arky. This much we heard while toast­ing marsh­mal­lows around the camp­fire, at least if we grew up in a cer­tain mod­ern Protes­tant tra­di­tion. As adults, we may or may not believe that there ever lived a man called Noah who built an ark to save all the world’s inno­cent ani­mal species from a sin-cleans­ing flood. But unless we’ve tak­en a deep dive into ancient his­to­ry, we prob­a­bly don’t know that this espe­cial­ly famous Bible sto­ry was­n’t the first of its par­tic­u­lar sub­genre. As explained in the Hochela­ga video above, there are even old­er glob­al-del­uge tales to be reck­oned with. In fact, one such myth appears in the old­est known work of lit­er­a­ture in human his­to­ry, the Epic of Gil­gamesh. “In it, the god Ea learns of this divine flood, and secret­ly warns the humans about this com­ing dis­as­ter,” says Hochela­ga cre­ator Tom­mie Trelawny. Thus informed, the …

The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals

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[ad_1] As much as you may enjoy a night in with a book, you might not look so eager­ly for­ward to it if that book com­prised 314 folios of 1,971 papal let­ters and oth­er doc­u­ments relat­ing to eccle­si­as­ti­cal law, all from the thir­teenth cen­tu­ry. Indeed, even many spe­cial­ists in the field would hes­i­tate to take on the chal­lenge of such a man­u­script in full. But what if we told you it comes with illus­tra­tions of demons run­ning amok, knights bat­tling snails, killer rab­bits and oth­er ani­mals tak­ing their revenge on human­i­ty, a dead ringer for Yoda, and the pen­i­tent har­lot Thäis? These are just a few of the char­ac­ters that grace the pages of the Smith­field Dec­re­tals, the most visu­al­ly notable of all extant copies of the Dec­re­tales of Pope Gre­go­ry IX. When it was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished as an already-illu­mi­nat­ed man­u­script in the 1230s, writes Spencer McDaniel at Tales of Times For­got­ten, “the mar­gins of the text were delib­er­ate­ly left blank by the orig­i­nal French scribes so that future own­ers of the text could add …

Scientists discover links between beverage choices and mental health risks

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[ad_1] A large study has found that different types of beverages are linked to the likelihood of developing depression and anxiety disorders. The study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, found that higher intake of sugary and artificially sweetened drinks was related to a greater risk of depression among younger adults, while fruit juices and coffee were associated with a lower risk of both depression and anxiety across age groups. The researchers, based at Wenzhou Medical University in China, conducted the study to explore how beverage choices might influence the risk of depression and anxiety disorders. While previous studies have suggested possible links between diet and mental health, most focused on broad dietary patterns or small groups. There has been less clarity on how specific beverages relate to mental health outcomes, especially across different age groups. With mental health conditions on the rise globally, the research team wanted to examine whether commonly consumed drinks—like sugary soft drinks, diet beverages, fruit juice, coffee, milk, and tea—are linked to long-term mental health outcomes, and whether replacing …

Archaeologists discover the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was Built over a Garden Confirming the Biblical Record – OpentheWord.org

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[ad_1] Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem where Jesus was buriedCredit: Gerd Eichmann, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Apostle John described the sepulcher or burial chamber that Jesus’ body was put in after his death as “a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid” (John 19:41). Joseph, who Matthew described as a rich man and follower of Jesus, probably had constructed the tomb for his own death (Matthew 27:57). But with the urgent need for a grave, Joseph volunteered his sepulcher fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy that the messiah would be buried “with a rich man in His death” (Isaiah 53:9), Tradition states that Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre is built over the location where Jesus was both crucified (Golgotha) and buried. It was first identified as the site in the 4th century by Emperor Constantine’s mother, Helena. This resulted in Constantine constructing the first church. The church building has been built, renovated, destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries. Today, it is co-managed by the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and …