Twenty Six Words, Then Sixty Two
Fifty one ordinary people trained one old trick for thirty minutes a day. Six weeks on they had more than doubled their recall, and their brain wiring had moved toward that of memory champions.
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The Creatine Memory Gain Sits With Older Adults
One sleepless night in Germany gave a big single dose and got solid numbers back. The everyday case is thinner. The pooled memory gain did not survive its own authors' recount, except in adults of 66 to 76.
Read issue ↗Four Words That Open A Thought Reader
A volunteer imagines a four word password, and only then will the decoder read the sentences they imagine on cue. Free-form thought stays out of reach. Three labs are pulling speech off the cortex, and one of them has run at home for two years.
Read issue ↗Four Questions, Four Papers
Does the four hour gap work backwards, what carries flavanols if you skip tea, is a hearing test worth it at 58, and could that eye chip help your mother. Mailbag day, with the source under every answer.
Read issue ↗The Collagen Gain Fades Outside Industry Trials
Twenty three trials pooled together looked good for skin. Sorted by who paid for them, the gain vanished in the trials the trade had not funded.
Read issue ↗Three Senses Coming Back Online
A gene put into the ear, a chip the size of a grain of rice under the retina, and a leg that answers to the nervous system. Plus the free move with the biggest trial behind it.
Read issue ↗Learn It, Then Move Four Hours Later
Seventy two people learned the same 90 pairs. The ones who rode a bike four hours afterwards held onto more of it two days on, and the ones who rode straight away did not.
Read issue ↗The Flavanol Gap, And Whether You Have One
In one small trial the lead scientist said a 60-year-old memory came to test like a 40-year-old. Then a trial almost a hundred times bigger found the gain only in people who were short to begin with.
Read issue ↗Three Labs Working The Latch On Learning
A drug that reopens a learning window, a nerve paired with practice, and a beam of sound aimed through the skull. Plus the free trick that beat rereading by 21 points.
Read issue ↗Ten Minutes Of Warm Water, Ninety Minutes Before Bed
Thirteen trials pooled into one answer: a warm bath at the right hour shortens the wait for sleep by about ten minutes. The reason is a thermostat under your skin.
Read issue ↗Seven Thousand Steps Carries Most Of The Gain
The number on your watch face may trace back to a 1965 pedometer, not to a lab. Here is where the gain actually sits, across 161,000 adults.
Read issue ↗Three Ways To Get Strong Without The Gym
An antibody, a pill and a pair of robotic shorts are all chasing the same prize. One arm curl a day, three seconds long, already delivers a slice of it.
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