Mice Treated with Klotho Do Better on Tests of Memory and Motor Skills In a study that augurs well for the therapeutic potential of klotho – a life-extending protein hormone that a minority... Read more
Scientists have created underwater robot swarms that function like schools of fish, exchanging information to monitor the environment, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvesting resour... Read more
People who have had an infection that made them so sick they had to be hospitalized may have IQs that are slightly lower than average, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University o... Read more
A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport x-ray scanners has provided researchers with billions of pieces of data in record time, acco... Read more
A portable imaging tool could change the way the medical community analyzes and understands the long-term effects of sports-related concussions. Research conducted by Humboldt State Kinesiol... Read more
What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week in the Journal Topics in Cognitive Science may make you thin... Read more
A robot that feels, sees and, in particular, thinks and learns like us. It still seems like science fiction, but if it’s up to UT researcher Frank van der Velde, it won’t be. In... Read more
Our approach is similar to how we believe the brain itself combines prior knowledge with sensory information By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is po... Read more
If you forget where you put your car keys and you can’t seem to remember things as well as you used to, the problem may well be with the GluN2B subunits in your NMDA receptors. And don’t be... Read more
The long-term goal is to build a chip with 10 billion neurons and a hundred trillion synapses — all while only consuming roughly a kilowatt of power and taking up less than two liters... Read more
Computer science researchers have programmed a computer to play the game Concentration (also known as Memory). The work could help improve computer security – and improve our understanding o... Read more
“Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver“ Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they ar... Read more
Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia. With baby boomers approaching the age of 65 and new cases of Alzheimer’s dis... Read more
“Our study showed for the first time significant benefits of temporal training on broad aspects of cognitive function in the elderly.” Research has found that declines in temporal info... Read more
Why androids are scary ARTIFICIALLY created beings, whether they be drawn or sculpted, are warmly accepted by viewers when they are distinctively inhuman. As their appearances are mad... Read more