Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that doesn’t make it any more “efficient.”
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Share your goals — but be careful whom you tell: Tell your aspirations to higher-status people, study suggests
If you want to achieve a goal, make sure you share your objective with the right person. In a new
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Shrinking brain tumors and opening the door for targeted cancer therapies
A new drug, known as IP1867B, could be used for future treatments of brain tumours. Dr Richard Hill led the
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How some older brains decline before people realize it
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what
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Chimpanzees’ working memory similar to ours: Contrary to humans, chimpanzees did not use search strategies to facilitate their task
Working memory is central to our mental lives; we use it to add up the cost of our shopping or
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How procrastinators and doers differ genetically
Some people tend to postpone actions. In women, this trait is associated with a genetic predisposition towards a higher level
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Storing data in music
Manuel Eichelberger and Simon Tanner, two ETH doctoral students, store data in music. This means, for example, that background music
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Alzheimer’s missing link ID’d, answering what tips brain’s decline: Brain’s immune cells form nexus between two damaging Alzheimer’s proteins
Years before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear, two kinds of damaging proteins silently collect in the brain: amyloid beta and
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Artificial intelligence could be ‘game changer’ in detecting, managing Alzheimer’s disease: Study introduces machine learning as new tactic in assessing cognitive brain health and patient care
Worldwide, about 44 million people are living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or a related form of dementia. Although 82 percent
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Breakthrough process to create cancer-killing drugs: New technique could produce treatments for wide variety of diseases
A research team at Dartmouth College has developed a new strategy for drug discovery and development that can be used
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