Study: Black-white IQ gap is narrowing September 13, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A U.S. researcher says the gap in measured cognitive ability between blacks and whites has narrowed by a least 25 percent since 1972. | |
Running slows the aging clock, researchers find August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from Stanford University School of Medicine that has tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years. Elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer ... | |
Why fish oil is good for you December 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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It's good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease. | |
Adult stem cell findings offer new hope for Parkinson's cure June 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Research released today provides evidence that a cure for Parkinson's disease could lie just inside the nose of patients themselves. | |
Ibuprofen or acetaminophen in long-term resistance training increases muscle mass/strength April 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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Taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen caused a substantially greater increase over placebo in the amount of quadriceps muscle mass and muscle strength gained during three months of regular weight ... | |
 Quality of Sleep Determines Where the Brain Stores Memories December 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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As time passes, our memories are transferred to different parts of the brain in order to ideally store our past experiences. While scientists have known that sleep plays an important role in helping consolidate ... | |
Daytime sleep improves memory consolidation January 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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A ninety minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation, a recent study conducted by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research at the University of ... | |
 Unconscious Decisions in the Brain April 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Already several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain. This is shown in a study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human ... | |
Antibacterial chemical disrupts hormone activities December 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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A new UC Davis study shows that a common antibacterial chemical added to bath soaps can alter hormonal activity in rats and in human cells in the laboratory—and does so by a previously unreported mechanism. | |
Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed ... | |
 Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain November 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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In a notion taken from science fiction afficionados, University of Arizona researchers presented a robot that moves by using the brain impulses of a moth at the 37th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting ... | |
Brain rewards aggression much like it does sex, food, drugs February 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward—much like sex, food and drugs—offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent ... | |
Researchers create beating heart in laboratory January 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew ... | |
Scientists Locate Revved Up Chemical That Mimics Red Wine November 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Scientists at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals have conducted research on fattened rodents to test the utility of a chemical that mimics resversatrol. Resversatrol is a key compound in red wine. After examining 500 thousand compounds, ... | |
Scientists to study synthetic telepathy August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy. | |
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