World Reading Club [W[R]C]

World Reading Club Celebrates the JOY of Learning by Promoting the LOVE of Literacy.
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Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 23 minutes
Episodes: 309
Years Active: 2022 - 2025

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Tuning Into Brainwave Rhythms Speeds up Learning in Adults[W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-waves-learning-22415/

Summary: Tuning into a person’s brain wave cycle before they perform a learning task can dramatically improve the speed at which cognitive skil…

00:16:01 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Mocktails or Cocktails? Having a Sense of Purpose in Life Can Keep Binge Drinking at Bay [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/purpose-binge-drinking-22416/

Summary: Having a sense of purpose in life decreases alcohol consumption and binge drinking temptation in some social drinkers.

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00:12:30 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Could NASA’s Studies on Hibernating Squirrels Help Astronauts? [W[R]C]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/could-nasa-s-studies-on-hibernating-squirrels-help-astronauts

Can studying sleeping Arctic ground squirrels help astronauts and further NASA’s mission? Dr. Kelly Drew and …

00:06:31 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics: How we navigate through crowds [W[R]C]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-entorhinal-grid-like-codes-time-locked-network.html

Grid cells not only help us navigate our own paths in a complex environment, but also help us analyze the mov…

00:09:01 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Research team finds brain marker that indicates vulnerability to developing post-traumatic stress disorder [W[R]C]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-team-brain-marker-vulnerability-post-traumatic.html

Understanding one's susceptibility to developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is important. If you k…

00:10:31 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

China's stricter clean heating policies may have saved thousands of lives [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-china-stricter-policies-thousands.html

China's stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities…

00:10:01 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Researchers elucidate structure of enigmatic chloroplast protein transport machinery [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-elucidate-enigmatic-chloroplast-protein-machinery.html

Chloroplasts of algae and plants are the cellular engines that convert solar energy into chemical energy through ph…

00:09:01 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

A flurry of RSV vaccine research may result in a protective immunization in the not-too-distant future [W[R]C]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-flurry-rsv-vaccine-result-immunization.html

A new analysis of how the immune system responds to both older and newer investigational vaccines for respiratory syn…

00:15:01 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

TESS discovers new warm brown dwarf [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-tess-brown-dwarf.html

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm brown dwarf.

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00:07:31 | Wed 01 Feb 2023

Rewriting oxytocin’s love story using CRISPR [W[R]C]

https://www.biotechniques.com/biochemistry/rewriting-oxytocins-love-story-using-crispr/

The neurohormone traditionally labeled the ‘love hormone’ may have just lost that title as new research finds th…

00:08:31 | Tue 31 Jan 2023

Antioxidants From Mitochondria Protect Cells From Dying [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/mitochondria-antioxidant-apoptosis-22403/

Summary: The STARD7 enzyme helps transport the antioxidant coenzyme Q from the mitochondria to the cell surface.

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00:11:31 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

NASA Announces Finalists in Challenge to Design Future Astronaut Food [W[R]C]

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/centennial_challenges/nasa-announces-finalists-in-challenge-to-design-future-astronaut-food

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 flight engineer Megan McArthur …

00:12:01 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot [W[R]C]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-completes-mars-sample-depot

NASA’s Perseverance took this selfie of itself looking down at one of 10 sample tubes deposited at the sample dep…

00:11:01 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

Emotional blunting and reward processing: side effects of antidepressants [W[R]C]

https://www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience/emotional-blunting-and-reward-processing-side-effects-of-antidepressants/

A new study has revealed why antidepressants often cause emotional blunting.

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00:14:01 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

human accelerated regions in primate neurodevelopment [W[R]C]

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)01123-0

Summary
Using machine learning (ML), we interrogated the function of all human-chimpanzee variants in 2,645 human accelerated regions (HARs), …

02:00:00 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

Changing the brain: nanocapsule therapy edits the Alzheimer’s gene [W[R]C]

https://www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience/changing-the-brain-nanocapsule-therapy-edits-the-alzheimers-gene/

In a recent study, researchers developed a nanocapsule gene therapy that can edit an Alzhei…

00:06:31 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

Is Brain Learning Weaker Than Artificial Intelligence? [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-ai-learning-22396/

Summary: Artificial neural networks based on human brain dynamics can outperform current deep learning models in learning capabilities.

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00:08:01 | Mon 30 Jan 2023

The evolutionary balancing act that produced both advanced cognition and cognitive disease in humans [W[R]C]

https://www.biotechniques.com/whole-genome-studies/the-evolutionary-balancing-act-that-produced-both-advanced-cognition-and-cognitive-disease-in-humans/?notified=1

New research finds patterns of compe…