How to beat the algo-rhythm: Sanjoy Narayan writes on curated playlists
It’s easy to get hooked to streaming platforms and become overwhelmed by the largely AI-driven choices they push, but there ...
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Aging Brains Have a Sugar Problem – And Stanford Scientists May Have Found a Fix
Stanford researchers discovered that age-related thinning of the brain’s glycocalyx—a sugar layer on blood-brain barrier cells—leads to increased permeability, neuroinflammation, and cognitive decline ...
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Do Specialized Glycoproteins Prop Up Blood-Brain Barrier?
The blood-brain barrier weakens during normal aging and in neurodegenerative disease, but the reasons are not fully understood. In the February 26 Nature, scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray and Carolyn ...
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New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero
Partly inspired by artists I admire (Franz Kafka, David Cronenberg, Hideshi Hino) and leaning a little ironically into the most commercially popular genre in Latin America, autofiction ...