The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And what she found is that when you place the worms on ice after you teach them, they just don't forget even ten times longer than control worms at that point, after 24 hours, if normal worms forget after 2 hours, after 24 hours, the worms will become sick.
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And we found genes that when you mutate them, the worms just remember longer, always, even when they're off ice, because these are the genes that normally change when they are surprised on the ice.
So Dana grew the worms on lithium, removed them from lithium, taught them the association, and found out that they remember a lot longer than control worms.