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Dans certains cas, l’analyse d’une région du cerveau appelée cortex entorhinal pourrait permettre de détecter les stades précoces de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Fizkes/Shutterstock

La vulnérabilité aux escroqueries, un indicateur précoce de la maladie d’Alzheimer ?

Chez certaines personnes âgées se disant vulnérables aux escroqueries, une région du cerveau affectée au début de la maladie d’Alzheimer présente une épaisseur plus faible que la normale.
The Aochi family in the Rohwer, Arkansas, detention camp. Photo courtesy of June Aochi Berk

Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all the people subjected to this unjustified incarceration.
Not as many people will get the chance to vote in 2025 compared with the previous year. MicroStockHub/Getty Images

5 elections to watch in 2025

Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
Citizens in 24 states can add measures to the state ballot. adamkaz/Royalty Free via Getty Images

Why does Colorado have so many ballot measures?

Colorado voters considered 14 ballot measures in the November 2024 election, the most of any state.
The director of national intelligence coordinates the work of 18 agencies that ultimately provide crucial intelligence to the president. Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images Plus

How a director of national intelligence helps a president stay on top of threats from around the world

The director of national intelligence is the president’s principal adviser on intelligence. A former White House intelligence official explains the role and how the person in it serves the nation.
Medicare Advantage was supposed to find efficiencies, but instead is costing taxpayers an extra $83 billion a year. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less

Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
In the week after the 2024 presidential election, the coin’s value jumped 250%. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Dogecoin is a joke − so what’s behind its rally?

Dogecoin’s rebound – after several years of devaluation and disrepute – reveals the extent to which community, attention and hype undergird the investment.
A brain region called the entorhinal cortex may offer an important puzzle piece to understanding early Alzheimer’s disease. Andrew Bret Wallis/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Vulnerability to financial scams in aging adults could be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, new research shows

Adults who self-reported higher vulnerability toward financial exploitation showed lower thickness in a brain region that is affected early in Alzheimer’s disease.
People pray at a shrine to the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zeljko Milicevic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

How updated Vatican rules on validating supernatural appearances of Mary will affect the famed pilgrimage site of Medjugorje

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.
Migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S. border from Mexico are detained by Border Patrol officers on June 4, 2024. Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images

How Trump might target DACA recipients and other immigrant groups

Trump focused on illegal immigration in his campaign and pledged to make a range of sweeping changes – some of which his administration could do without congressional approval.

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