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Ultrasound can be a neuromodulator—to increase or decrease the likelihood that neurons will fire. Exactly how this works remains unclear, but it likely results from the physical “shaking” of neurons.Illustration by Jackie Niam / Shutterstock A few years ago, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, I escaped the noisy midday…

Football! Beautiful to watch, not so much to listen to. Oh sure, the thud of studs on shin guard, the rustle of a ball in the back of the net has a certain sonic poetry to it, but we're referring to the songs, the audio artefacts that litter in bargain…

EMBARGOED FOR MONDAY 00:01 JUNE 5. There may still be a year to go before The Big Jubilee Lunch, but practising was well underway this weekend as neighbours across the UK joined in the opening weekend of The Big Lunch 2021. Bunting and baking was out in force as communities…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 June 2021 / 1,253 Views Publisher Big Sugar and developer Glowfish Interactive have announced action adventure game, Trifox, for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. It will launch in Q1 2022. View the announcement…

Arno Botha. (Photo by Anton Geyser/Gallo Images) South Africa's franchises will have to go into isolation for 10 days before their tour matches against the British & Irish Lions.Rassie Erasmus, the national director of rugby, revealed that protocol as part of the effort to keep the integrity of the Boks…

It’s been over a year since NBA fans have been able to cheer on their respective teams in person, but that has changed significantly since the beginning of the NBA playoffs. Recently many franchises eased capacity restrictions and upped the number of spectators allowed into their venues. It’s been great.…

Entry #203 in the Dylan to English Dictionary, billed by author A.J. Weberman as “the most useful and authoritative translation of Bob Dylan’s poetry you can own,” provides the Dylanological definition of garbage as: “Empty talk, vacuousness, inferior work produced by other artists.” And Weberman, who lays claim to coining…

The NBA playoffs are finally here, and they arrive with what appears to be a wide open race in the Western Conference. Yes, the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers are back again, but they enter the postseason as a No. 7 seed after needing to qualify through the play-in tournament.…

Unsurprisingly, EA’s 4K remaster of the first Mass Effect is a night-and-day difference from the 2007 original. One look at a side-by-side comparison tells you most of what you need to know about this upgrade: textures, character models, and effects have been retrofitted and everything runs at 60 frames per…

The NBA play-in tournament helped add more intrigue to the end of the regular season as teams jockeyed for position in the standings with more meaningful implications than ever before. Now the play-in tournament is here, with four teams in each conference vying for the final two playoff seeds in…