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May 2024
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Solar Drinking Water, Forgetting Memorie...

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Today, you’ll learn about a revolutionary new system that can turn saltwater into drinking water with the help of the sun, how your brain chooses what memories to keep, and a super-Earth with a really dark side.  

 

Solar Drinking Water 

 

 

Forgetting Memories 

 

  • “How the brain chooses which memories are important enough to save and which to let fade away.” by Linda Carroll. 2024.  
  • “Relax! It’ll boost your memory, study shows.” by Kate Kelland. 2010.  
  • “Normal and Abnormal Sharp Wave Ripples in the Hippocampal-Entohinal Cortex System: Implications for Memory Consolidation, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.” by Zhi-Hang Zhen, et al. 2021.  

 

Super-Earth 

 

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