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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 19, 2026.
Tiny flexible fibers in microchannels flip between two stable states, so a network of them keeps a memory of what has flowed through, with no electronics at all.
Hebrew University researchers measured a single magnetic vortex flipping between two positions and found it needs only about 5 times Landauer's limit, a million times less than a modern computer.
The eight-pole magnetic order is invisible to standard probes, but it leaves a signature in how a crystal's atoms vibrate, which could lead to new kinds of computer memory.
Time-resolved X-ray microscopy at BESSY II caught antiferromagnetic skyrmions tracking an applied current exactly — and rebounding off each other when they collided.
Researchers compared 142 people with exceptional memory against 89 typical peers and found no genetic advantage — not in APOE, not in polygenic risk scores, not even in rare protective variants.
Adults consuming the most low- and no-calorie sweeteners aged cognitively about 1.6 years faster, researchers reported — with the effect strongest in people under 60 and those with diabetes.
A study in mice finds that tau — infamous for the tangles it forms in dementia — is essential during a brief window for turning fresh experiences into durable memories, reframing how scientists think about the protein.
Researchers found that sleep loss damages brain circuits responsible for social memory, but caffeine can restore communication between neurons and reverse memory deficits.
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia turns the brain's own LRP1 transport system into an active drug — and treated 18-month-old mice behave like healthy younger animals six months later.
Government cuts to human rights groups coincide with promotion of revisionist accounts of military dictatorship's crimes fifty years after the junta.