#age

10:57pm, 10th May, 2019

Good sleep quality and good mood lead to good working memory with age

(University of California - Riverside) A team of psychologists has found strong associations between working memory -- a fundamental building block of a functioning mind -- and three health-related factors: sleep, age, and depressed mood. The team al...

"Frost Fairs," the Little Ice Age and Climate Change

7:54am, 7th May, 2019

Nature

"Frost Fairs," the Little Ice Age and Climate Change

When the Thames would occasionally freeze in the 17th to the early 19th century, Londoners made the most of it-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

12:48pm, 12th March, 2019

Nature

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

(Emory Health Sciences) Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates. A new paper, however, argues that it was not tool-making that set hominins apart -- i...