Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind
2 August 2017
An electrical component once thought impossible is delivering machine minds that can think on their own
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Eating a lower calorie diet improves learning ability in worms
1 August 2017
Calorie-restricted diets have already been linked to longer lifespans in flies, mice and monkeys. Now a study has found that eating less can boost learning
Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time
1 August 2017
Our closest evolutionary relatives develop Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles too but don’t necessarily get dementia - a finding that may need to new treatments
Keep having nightmares? You may be getting too much sleep
28 July 2017
One of the largest ever studies of the causes of nightmares has found that they are linked to worrying before bedtime, and sleeping for more than 9 hours
Fish can't recognise faces if they’re upside down – just like us
26 July 2017
Just like humans, the medaka fish that lives in rice paddies is good at identifying faces – but, again like us, it struggles when faces are the wrong way up
