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Dr. Kawashima and Nintendo were right: brain-training games can actually have a significant positive effect and reduce the effects of aging on our brain. A new scientific study has found that as much as a decade of aging may be offset by our efforts playing them, which is good news if you spent a very long time playing Brain Training. …

Dr. Peter Attia spends a lot of time thinking about the last years of his life – and yours too. He’s declared war on what he calls the marginal decade, the final years of life that are plagued by sickness and immobility. It’s not often that 60 Minutes does a story on a physician who has fewer than 75 patients, …

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’ve spent any time around kids lately, you’ve probably heard about “brain rot.” Named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it’s defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be …

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old “low quality” junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is attempting to quantify just how much this kind of low quality data can cause an LLM to experience effects akin to human “brain rot.” …

WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as the agency rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, one current and two former Homeland Security Department officials told NBC News. ICE officials only …

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois sheriff’s deputy who killed Sonya Massey in her Springfield home last year eschewed his training and the principles of policing when he shot the Black woman who had called 911 for help, a prosecutor said Wednesday in Sean Grayson’s murder trial. Grayson, who is white, faces three counts of first-degree murder for shooting the …

A review of over 200 studies has found that walking, cycling or swimming is the best medicine for osteoarthritic knees. Compared to other forms of exercise, aerobic training had the best short and long-term outcomes in terms of pain relief and mobility gains. Around 30% of adults over the age of 45 show signs of knee osteoarthritis on X-rays. Roughly …

With age comes a natural decline in cognitive function, even among otherwise healthy adults without dementia. A new study finds that a cognitive training program may boost production of a brain chemical that plays a role in memory and attention. Participants who completed game-like activities through BrainHQ, an online subscription program, showed increased production of acetylcholine, sometimes called the “pay …

More than 97% of electron microscope images aren’t reported in peer-reviewed scientific papers, according to a large-scale analysis. The authors of the study, analysed scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images produced at a single core facility for over a decade. Out of the more than 152,000 evaluated images, the authors found that only just under 3600 …

Paulette Szalay, 60, dieted for nearly all her life. But it took a mindset change for her to lose the weight that was slowing her down and affecting her health. “That pivotal moment was on Easter Sunday of 2022. I was close to 260 pounds. I was an educator, working on the second floor, and I could no longer walk …