August 2026
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Science & Space Digest — August 28, 2026
The brain's hibernation switch has been found — Scientists have finally located the brain circuit that controls hibernation, a discovery in hamsters that points toward inducing a hibernation-like…
Science & Space Digest — Aug 21, 2026
Strange gamma-ray signal may be the most direct evidence of dark matter yet — Astronomers detected an unusual glow in three galaxy clusters that could be produced by dark matter, the invisible…
Science & Space Digest — Aug 14, 2026
Memories persist even after the brain connections thought to hold them are gone — In mice, researchers found that memories survived the loss of the synaptic connections (the junctions between…
Science & Space Digest — Aug 7, 2026
Tau protein breaks into brain cells' energy factories — In Alzheimer's disease, the tau protein is infamous for forming toxic tangles inside neurons, but a new study shows it also sneaks into…