Show Notes
On today’s episode: Life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor might not have been fully alive. Scientists wiped the memory of a bunch of lab mice… and they weren’t even EVIL scientists! All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself | Scientific American Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses | Ars Technica Memories stick around even after half the synapses are gone | Ars Technica What Happens to Memories When Half the Brain's Synapses Disappear? | Technology Networks
CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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