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Brains Became Capable of Invention 75,000 Years Ago

New evidence appears to support theories suggesting that the human brain – with is ability to create new things, invent and reinvent itself – appeared no later than 75,000 years ago, in a sudden event. A new study is bound to reignite the scientific debate already raging on on this issue. At first, th...

26 September 2011
05:06 GMT

Cognitive Decline Rates in Alzheimer's Very Rapid

Scientists were recently able to determine in a new study that people suffering from the neurodegenerative condition Alzheimer's Diseases were likely to experience very fast cognitive decline. While this has been known for some time, the new study shows that these rates are about four times higher in dementia pa...

24 March 2010
16:01 GMT

Stingrays Can Use Tools

For the first time ever, researchers have managed to demonstrate that the freshwater stingray is able to use tools in tests requiring problem-solving abilities, when the need arises. The sea creatures are able to employ the help of the body of water they are swimming through, in order to obtain a hidden meal conceale...

13 January 2010
17:01 GMT

Musical Training Boosts Mental Abilities

Scientists reveal that music, while being a form of entertainment for most people, is something much more for those who actually play a musical instrument, or who otherwise create music. This is especially true for children who play in school orchestra, bands, or who have been practicing a certain instrument since th...

7 November 2009
05:46 GMT


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