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This week in science: The US puts together new guidelines for blood pressure; sections of the seafloor found to be strangely upside down; the brightest radio flash ever detected; and much more! Wax moldings of faces and body parts, in jars at a museum. (Matthew Hatcher/AFP) The Mütter medical museum in the US will no longer accept donations of unidentified …

Every parent has seen it – the half-asleep child staring at textbooks before school, or the glazed look that creeps in halfway through homework. It’s easy to blame lack of discipline, too much screen time, or even dull lessons. But often, the missing piece is simpler: food. The brain is the hungriest organ in the body, using up to 20% …