Children make memories – so why don’t we remember them?

Children make memories – so why don’t we remember them?

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Brain tests indicate that the hippocampus of the infant can encrypt memories.Credit: Getti

A new study can reveal that children who are more than one year old make up memories, and the difficult part remembers them. Researchers used MRI to measure brain activity for children between 4 months to two years. The team found that the more active activity of the child increases when it shows a specific image, the more they look at it when it is displayed again, which indicates that it can remember it. Why can we not remember those memories because adults may not be identical between how to store memory and what your adult brain is looking for.

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Physicists presented controversial but interesting evidence to a confusing phenomenon: generating electricity from the Earth’s energy revolving through its magnetic field. The researchers designed a preliminary device that explains the effect, but the voltage that was created was very small so that it is difficult to check the mechanism. “Looks crazy,” Confess The astronomical scientist and study participating Christopher Sheba. “It has a whiff of the permanent motion machine.”

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The outbreak of measles grows in the United States – and the specialists inform nature It is difficult to predict its size. Most people who were born after 1989 in the United States are protected by two doses of MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and measles). Before 1963, born in 1963 is likely to suffer as children, so they are also protected, as well as people who have received an effective vaccine in living viruses between 1963 and 1989.

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Trump against science – at home and abroad

Researchers were sent in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada, who are receiving the United States’ financing, a detailed survey asks whether their US -funded projects are related to the topics condemned by the administration of President Donald Trump, such as diversity, fairness and integration; Climate and environmental justice. He also asks whether researchers’ institutions are working with communism, socialism, or any parties that embrace the anti -America beliefs, and receive funding from China. “Ultimately the maximum foreign influence in a way that we have not seen before from any of our research partners,” says Vicky Thompson, CEO of a group of eight federations at leading research universities in Australia.

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Academic institutions respond to discounts in federal financing with freezing employment, appointments and restricted acceptance of postgraduate studies. Dozens of universities also face additional blame, as the Trump team accuses them of anti -Semitic harassment regarding pro -Palestinians protests, or criticizing them for their transgender athletes. The political scientist Asim Brakash says: “The academic model on which universities relied on conducting their research, to finance their students, to finance graduate students – all this in the crisis.”

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“The idea that scientists can continue to do what they know to do to integrate Dei in their work while modifying the terms to suit the demands of fanatic tyranny bent on infiltrated science is whistling loudly on a cemetery of the error that can be avoided, and continuous financial discounts and control.”

Arthur Kaplan, Arthur Kaplan, determines the countless methods and which concern diversity and fairness (DEI) in science – to improve the accuracy of clinical research to expand the contributions of the scientific workforce – and scientists urge Trump’s efforts to get rid of this. (Nature | 5 minutes read)

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The mother has concerns about this type of person with her child in the latest short story natureFutures Series.

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Andrew Robinson’s choice of the best five scientific books can be read this week “History through Monsters” like the Frankstein creature and Xenomorph from foreignAnd the condition of the anthropology to let rivers work for free.

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The small satellite enabled the sending of information reserved to the quantity between China and South Africa, which is the farthest distance that has been achieved for quantum communications. “This seems to be a milestone,” nature Reporter Elizabeth Jibni tells Natural podcast. “A step on the way to the existence of a quantum network linking the entire world.”

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Chemical Holden Thorp, Editor -in -Chief of the Editor -in -Chief sciencesAutism has been diagnosed as an adult. He says that his experience can help in understanding the great height in the diagnostic spectrum diagnoses (and the reason is definitely not vaccination): The stigma is decreasing, consciousness increases, and there is a broader understanding of what autism may appear. ((The New York Times 7 minutes read))

Do you know the hero of the science (or maybe you are one)? The nominations are now open to the 2025 John Madox Prize for Science. The prize of 5,000 euros recognizes the work of any individual who promotes science and evidence for the issue of a public interest in the face of hostility. There is also an early prize for individuals. The closing date is April 30 – Discover more or nominate someone here.

Lev Benghenenson at a good break this week, but it will return to refreshing and revitalize it (alongside photo editor and Penguin Wrangler Tom Houghton) next week.

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