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3 weeks ago | advisorstream.com | Nidhi Subbaraman |Ron Phillips

By Nidhi Subbaraman April 3, 2025 What’s your first memory? Typically, the earliest adult memories of childhood start at about age 4. But scientists have wondered why not sooner. Is it because babies’ brains are too immature to form memories? Or do babies make memories, only to forget them as they age? The first study to observe memory activity in the brains of babies while they are awake now has some answers.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | Amy Dockser Marcus |Ron Phillips

By Amy Dockser Marcus March 20, 2025 Ben Meyers heard about a Japanese woman believed to be the world’s oldest barber at 106. So he sent a colleague to her salon outside of Tokyo for a haircut. He wanted to know if Shitsui Hakoishi’s story checked out. People who live beyond 100 are getting more attention than ever, with billionaires and entrepreneurs plowing money into longevity companies and scientists looking for treatments to slow aging.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | Steve Garmhausen |Ron Phillips

By Steve Garmhausen March 20, 2025 The financial precariousness of the Social Security system is no secret, but recent actions by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE have given many Americans new reasons to worry. Planned changes include layoffs of more than 10% of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, the closure of dozens of field offices throughout the country, and aggressive clawbacks of overpayments.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | Nidhi Subbaraman |Ron Phillips

By Nidhi Subbaraman March 18, 2025 Any doctor—or parent—will warn you that scratching an itch will only make it worse. But it turns out it has a surprise benefit. The act initially turbocharges the skin’s ability to fight off bacteria in the itchy zone, according to scientists who described their finding in the journal Science.   The team was investigating a familiar paradox: Scratching can aggravate an itchy bite, which then takes longer to heal.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | Sho Dewan |Ron Phillips

Sho Dewan, Contributor March 17, 2025 We’re only three months into 2025, and yet the job market is already throwing everyone for a spin. Even with layoffs happening left, right, and center, it’s still shocking to hear how much job cuts have gone up since January—a staggering 245% ! If you’re reading this as one of the thousands of professionals caught up in the latest wave of layoffs sweeping the U.S., my heart goes out to you. Losing a job is never easy.