Physics

How Your Speech Can Unveil Your Brain’s Workings

Finding your words sometimes becomes more difficult while age. This phenomenon, although banal, arouses concerns, especially on the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. However, a study by researchers at the Byycrest Center and the University of Toronto, published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, calls into question that the forgetting of words is … Read more

A Sanctuary of Resilient Life Survived History’s Largest Extinction

252 million years ago, the earth crossed the greatest mass extinction in its history, destroying more than 80% of marine species and radically transforming terrestrial ecosystems. For decades, scientists have considered this crisis as a total biodiversity collapse event. However, an unexpected discovery upsets this vision: in the Turpan-Hami basin, in China, an ecosystem resisted … Read more