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One Teen’s Incredible “Mental Time Travel” Memory System

One Teen’s Incredible “Mental Time Travel” Memory System A paper recently published in a behavioral sciences journal describes a high school student’s hyperthymesia, an extraordinary ability to retrieve autobiographical memories. Teenager With Hyperthymesia Exhibits Extraordinary Mental Time Travel Abilities: The subject of the study, referred to as TL, was a 17-year-old high school student in France when she came to …

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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, when something gets warmed up, heat tends to spread outward before eventually dissipating. But things are a little different in the world of superfluid quantum gas. For the first time, MIT scientists have successfully imaged how heat actually travels in a wave, known as a “second sound,” through this exotic …

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This Incredible Brain Implant Can Decode Inner Thoughts Into Speech : ScienceAlert

This Incredible Brain Implant Can Decode Inner Thoughts Into Speech : ScienceAlert

Scientists are making significant strides forward in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, and a newly developed system can translate our thoughts into text or sound. It’s essentially an inner speech decoder, developed by researchers from institutions across the US. In tests on four volunteers with severe paralysis, the decoder hit an accuracy rate of up to 74 percent in translating thoughts …

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Colleagues, coaches, celebrities pay incredible tribute to Lee Corso

Colleagues, coaches, celebrities pay incredible tribute to Lee Corso

It will surely be an emotional scene next Saturday in Columbus when sports broadcasting legend Lee Corso puts on the headgear for the last time and retires from College GameDay and the ESPN airwaves. But fans got a glimpse of what was to come this weekend thanks to a network television special. ESPN aired a tribute show to Corso, looking back on …

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