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A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas spirals inward and briefly glows. Astronomers call these flares tidal disruption events, or TDEs. They unfold over months or years, letting you watch black holes feed and, at...
The brain has its own waste disposal system – known as the glymphatic system – that’s thought to be more active when we sleep. But disrupted sleep might hinder this waste disposal system and slow the clearance of waste products or toxins from the brain. And researchers are proposing a...
Going to school helps children learn how to read and solve math problems, but it also appears to upgrade the fundamental operating system of their brains. A new analysis suggests that the structured environment of formal education leads to improvements in executive functions, which are the cognitive skills required to...
