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How Long-Term Memories Form

In a new study conducted on unsuspecting mice, Swedish researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet managed to accomplish a major breakthrough in the field of neuroscience, when they identified a mechanism related to the formation of long-term memories. Their find essentially controls the brain's ...

10 November 2009
17:31 GMT

Sleeping Is Like Laundering Your Brain

The human brain is, indeed, a perfect construction, researchers have recently said, after the results of a new study detailing the changes that go on in our synapses while we sleep have been published. It would appear that sleep, other than being comforting for the mind and for the body, also helps our brain function...

3 April 2009
09:55 GMT

A Bigger Brain Doesn't Always Make You Smarter

ENIAC versus a modern digital computer - which one is faster? Well, ENIAC weighed about 27 tons and filled several rooms while a modern computer weighs less than ten kilograms and you can fill a single room with several hundreds of them, so if we were to judge the computing power according to size then ENIAC would ce...

9 June 2008
05:23 GMT


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