Anastasia developed a magnificent memory using these techniques

Imagine you're at dinner with friends and you've just been introduced to the person next to you. Would you remember their name? Before she began to train her memory, Australian memory champion Anastasia Woolmer says she would have had no chance. She worried that she had a shoddy memory in general.

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Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering 'brainy' woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneurology

Tilly Edinger was the first person to apply a deep-time perspective into different species' brain evolution. She did this by focusing on the hollow space within a dead animal's skull.

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Is the process of ageing inevitable?

Some animals, like sea sponges, can live for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. They also never get cancer. Understanding why that’s the case has led scientists to question conventional notions of ageing. The idea that future humans may never grow old now seems theoretically possible.

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NASA Scientist: We Should Take UFOs as Seriously as Mars Research

Scientists are "notably absent from the current UAP conversation."

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Reducing poverty can actually lower energy demand, finds research

Turns out human development is a matter of economic justice and climate justice.

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NASA's Juno to get a close look at Jupiter's moon Ganymede

The first of the gas-giant orbiter's back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years.

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NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years

Two spacecraft aim to solve deep mysteries about the nearby planet, including why it resembles a hellish, toxic version of Earth.

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