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Researchers discover the first-ever link between intelligence and curiosity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered a molecular link between intelligence and curiosity, which may lead to the development ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 10

Scientists capture the first image of memories being made

The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 3

How smart are killer whales? Orcas have 2nd-biggest brains of all marine mammals

Neuroscientist Lori Marino and a team of researchers explored the brain of a dead killer whale with an MRI and found an astounding potential for intelligence.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 6

Quantum computer - tune in now: Atomic antennae transmit quantum information across microchip

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Austrian research group led by physicist Rainer Blatt suggests a fundamentally novel architecture for quantum computation. They have experimentally demonstrated quantum antennae, which ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aerobic exercise grows brain cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aerobic exercises such as running or jogging have long been known to be good for the health, but now new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has sh ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Smart rat 'Hobbie-J' produced by over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate

Over-expressing a gene that lets brain cells communicate just a fraction of a second longer makes a smarter rat, report researchers from the Medical College of Georgia and East China Normal University.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 5

Remember magnesium if you want to remember

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like ".jpg" or ".png" signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format, reducing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Growth factor protects key brain cells in Alzheimer's models

Memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain cell degeneration and cell death were prevented or reversed in several animal models after treatment with a naturally occurring protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Scientists give flies false memories

By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9

Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

(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

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Rsearchers discover brain's memory 'buffer' in single cells

Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

NTT researchers develop breakthrough optical memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- To improve transmission speeds, the Internet has transitioned over the years from one using copper to fiber optic cabling. Unfortunately, this has caused a bottleneck to occur where the light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

The human brain uses a grid to represent space

'Grid cells' that act like a spatial map in the brain have been identified for the first time in humans, according to new research by UCL scientists which may help to explain how we create internal maps of new environments.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast