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For decades, scientists have focused on the brain as the primary location for memory storage and processing. However, recent groundbreaking research from is challenging this long-standing assumption, ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having dinner with your family or friends. Suddenly, your beverage gets knocked over, and it spills all over the table, making a mess. Think back to that moment.

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Lily Fincher and Omar Etman show how to play a math memory game. Lily Fincher and Omar Etman show how to play a math memory game. They make two sets of cards depicting something they’ve learned ...