Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing

Learning to recognise birds may strengthen your cognitive reserve steve young/Alamy Expert birdwatchers have brain differences that may underlie their remarkable ability to identify unfamiliar birds and suggest that birdwatching can reshape the brain in much the same way as learning a language or a musical instrument does. Such activities may bolster cognitive reserve, the…

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Venus has a massive lava tube

Shrouded from astronomers’ view by dense clouds, Earth’s “sister planet” Venus is slowly giving up some of its secrets. A lava tube beneath the Venusian surface — the first ever detected — could help explain how the planet formed, researchers report February 9 in Nature Communications. The detection was made by re-analyzing orbital radar data…

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