How the Brain Decides What to Remember
Electric ripples in the resting brain tag memories for storage and add credence to advice about the importance of rest......»»
Pure Oxygen Speeds Up Learning. Can It Help Stroke Survivors Recover?
Relearning everyday tasks is difficult for people with brain trauma. These researchers want to know if combining physical therapy with doses of oxygen will make the process easier......»»
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
Maybe it’s a commercial jingle, a TikTok song, or a new summer bop. Here’s how to trick your brain into hitting pause......»»
Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression
Dementia experts hail "watershed moment" after trial results for donanemab antibody treatment. Enlarge / Alzheimer’s patient brain scans, provided by Eli Lilly. The US company has reported full findings of its phase 3 clinical.....»»
Breakthrough in material design will help football players, car occupants and hospital patients
The discovery that football players were unknowingly acquiring permanent brain damage as they racked up head hits throughout their professional careers created a rush to design better head protection. One of these inventions is nanofoam, the material.....»»
Establishing ethical nanobiotechnology
Prosthetics moved by thoughts. Targeted treatments for aggressive brain cancer. Soldiers with enhanced vision or bionic ears. These powerful technologies sound like science fiction, but they're becoming possible thanks to nanoparticles......»»
Big news! Maker Faire Bay Area will return this October
For the past couple of years, I have had plenty of people ask me when Maker Faire was coming back. For example, Adam Trinklein wrote me recently: I’m a 17 year old high school student. Ever since I was little I remember going to the Maker Faire.....»»
To Understand the Human Brain, Give an Octopus MDMA
Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins, talks about how psychedelics affect the brain and how they can help people heal from traumatic experiences......»»
NASA decides not to launch two already-built asteroid probes
The Janus asteroid probes will remain on Earth. Enlarge / An artist's illustration of NASA's two Janus spacecraft as they would have appeared in space. (credit: Lockheed Martin) Two small spacecraft should have now been.....»»
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
Launched in 2004, the company once sought to be the world's brain dump. Enlarge / Evernote's self-conception of its brain-decluttering powers. It lacks only for a step where many more users pay for premium accounts than currently.....»»
Review: Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile
Manufacturer: Unihertz Kickstarter Campaign Price: $170 Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile? I remember my first phone: it was transparent blue, and it … plugged into the wall. But once things became a bit more mobile, I was very excite.....»»
AI breakthroughs could come via the brains of bees, scientists say
A bee's brain may only be the size of a sesame seed, but scientists in the U.K. believe its decision-making processes could help AI engineers in their work......»»
AI breakthroughs could come via the brain of bees, scientists say
A bee's brain may only be the size of a sesame seed, but scientists in the U.K. believe its decision-making processes could help AI engineers in their work......»»
Seabed trawling"s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated, says study
You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the seabed to catch fish (known as bottom trawling) releases as much carbon as all flights taken each year. It turns out that the assessment behind this claim overestimated.....»»
American mink regrow their brains in a rare reversal of the domestication process
Farm animals look different from their wild counterparts in many ways, and one difference is consistent: their brains are smaller than those of their ancestors. From sheep to pigs to cows, domesticated animals have smaller relative brain sizes compar.....»»
Who decides what ESG is and how to make investments greener?
More than 30 US states have proposed or implemented legislation in recent years to stop the government and its pension funds from investing in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds. These products integrate ESG issues into their investment.....»»
All animal intelligence was shaped by just five leaps in brain evolution, new paper argues
The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of jellyfish to the navigation abilities of bees, the complex songs of birds and the imaginative symbolic thought of humans......»»
One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost
An early experiment suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Enlarge Klotho, the ancient Greek goddess of fate, is responsible for spinning the thread of life. In the human body, a protein with the.....»»
Researchers grow bio-inspired polymer brains for artificial neural networks
The development of neural networks to create artificial intelligence in computers was originally inspired by how biological systems work. These "neuromorphic" networks, however, run on hardware that looks nothing like a biological brain, which limits.....»»
Chimpanzee heart check via digital camera may help curb cardiovascular disease
A world-first experiment to measure chimpanzee heart rates via a digital camera could help curb cardiovascular disease in great apes in captivity and provide valuable insights into how their brain develops from an early age......»»
Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
Brain activity differs among people who feel out of touch with their peers. Enlarge (credit: D. Anschutz) There is a reason countless songs about loneliness exist. Many are relatable, since feeling alone is often part of.....»»