Stability of a Memory: from forming to fading

Researchers at Caltech have identified the neural process that makes some memories stable, while others fade very easily. This can also be an implication of the understanding of brain damage and Alzheimer's disease. To figure out how memories form, the team developed a test to examine mice's neural activity as they learn about and remember … Continue reading Stability of a Memory: from forming to fading

Kinship By Margarita Engle

Two sets of family stories, one long and detailed, about many centuries of island ancestors, all living on the same tropical farm... The other side of the family tells stories that are brief and vague, about violence in the Ukraine, which Dad's parents had to flee forever, leaving all their loved ones behind. They don't … Continue reading Kinship By Margarita Engle

The Impossible Replication of Desire By Lee Herrick

How much delight before we collapse How much earth in the lungs How much wine When we want more When the weeds sprawl It is not what you think Think how fast some landscapes change the lover, the gardener's grand idea, the failing Maple the boat about to capsize the correction the hand's reflection the … Continue reading The Impossible Replication of Desire By Lee Herrick

Meeting Point By Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with the one pulse (Somebody stopped the moving stairs): Time was away and somewhere else. And they were neither up nor down; The stream’s music did not stop Flowing through heather, limpid brown, Although they sat in a coffee … Continue reading Meeting Point By Louis MacNeice

Ancient Parasitic DNA found in Faeces of Prehistoric Puma

DNA of a molecular parasite that affects modern-day dogs, cats and foxes has been found to have originated from a prehistoric species of puma (Puma concolor) A coprolite (fossilized faeces) of the Puma was taken from a rock-shelter in the country's mountainous Catamarca Province, where the remains of now-extinct megafauna have previously been recovered in … Continue reading Ancient Parasitic DNA found in Faeces of Prehistoric Puma