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putting worms on ice stops them forgetting

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The laboratory stalwart Caenorhabditis elegans gets a memory boost from being placed on ice.Credit: Heiti Paves/Science Photo Library Roundworms have short memories, forgetting new information just two to three hours after learning it. But put them on ice and they don’t forget — until they are returned to room temperature, a study finds1. The worms, … Read more

I was sick of forgetting files, but this app lets me access my devices from anywhere in the world

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What do you do when you forget to load a file onto your laptop and it’s now languishing at the other end of your house on a different device? In my case, I usually end up pausing whatever I’m doing, getting up and marching over to the file location, uploading it to a cloud server, … Read more