Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 27, 2012 4.8 / 5 (38) 22 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Information processing circuits in digital computers are static. In our brains, information processing circuits—neurons—evolve continuously to solve complex problems. Now, an international ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 25, 2010 4.2 / 5 (38) 7 |

A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the University of Michigan.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Apr 14, 2010 4.6 / 5 (27) 14 |

A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports a significant breakthrough in explaining gaps in scientists' understanding of human brain function. The study - ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Oct 15, 2009 4.9 / 5 (19) 1

Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Oct 27, 2010 3.4 / 5 (27) 574 |

Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Aug 18, 2011 4.4 / 5 (18) 18

(Phys.org)—One of the challenges of understanding the complex behavior of animals is to relate the behavior to the complex processes occurring within the brain. So far, neural models have not been able ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 30, 2012 4.3 / 5 (18) 15 |

In the initial stages of sleep, energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions found to be active during waking hours, according to new research in the June 30 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. These ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Jun 29, 2010 4.8 / 5 (15) 3 |

One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 03, 2012 4.9 / 5 (13) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Mar 09, 2009 5 / 5 (12) 0

Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that they may be able to monitor the aging process in the brain, by using MRI technique to measure the brain lactic acid levels. Their findings suggest that the lactate ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Nov 02, 2010 4.3 / 5 (13) 6 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in cognitive neuroscience (the science of how the brain works when we think) have shown that what our eyes see and what our brain interprets are two different things. Professor Guillaume Thierry, ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 26, 2009 4.3 / 5 (12) 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 07, 2009 4.7 / 5 (10) 1

It will be harder to lie about your age or your poker hand after new research by the University of Melbourne, Australia has revealed that our eye position betrays the numbers we are thinking about.

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Mar 23, 2010 3.9 / 5 (12) 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Feb 28, 2011 4.7 / 5 (10) 4 |