Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning

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July 07, 2021

The Body Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory. By Karen Hopkin

Behavior & Society What Fighting COVID and Fighting Drug Addiction Have in Common In both cases, harm reduction is a better strategy than draconian rules that feel virtuous but don't actually work By Maia Szalavitz

Computing How Does a Quantum Computer Work? If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything. By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio

Behavior & Society 'Ambiguous Loss' from Miami-Area Condo Collapse Makes Grieving Harder In a Q&A, loss expert Pauline Boss talks about coping with extreme uncertainty in the wake of a disaster By Katherine Harmon Courage

Public Health America's Long-Term Care System Is Broken It's time to invest more in home-based care and nursing homes, increase workers' pay and improve oversight By THE EDITORS

Climate Drought Spreads to 93 Percent of West--That's Never Happened The extreme dry conditions threaten crops and raise wildfire risks By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Policy & Ethics Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need Among other things, we might simply not agree By Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe

Public Health COVID Vaccines Will Not Reach Poorest Countries Until 2023 Amid a COVID surge in Africa, vaccine promises from richer nations are not enough to bring an early end to the pandemic, experts say By T. V. Padma,Nature magazine

Climate The Time May Finally Be Ripe for a National Climate Service This umbrella service could make it easier for communities to find information on climate risks, from drought to floods By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Physics Electrons Can Form Bizarre 2-D 'Flatland' in Superconductor This property could reveal new secrets of superconductivity By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Public Health A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of 'Long COVID' We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill By Claire Pomeroy

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Brain Learns in Unexpected Ways White matter, the insulation around our neural wiring, plays a critical role in acquiring knowledge  By R. Douglas Fields | March 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "A lot of the skills we learn in life are sequences of individual actions." Leonardo Cohen, senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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