309 - What is life and what is memory?

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

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