#working

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...

Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle

3:12pm, 22nd April, 2019

Tech

Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Human skeletal muscles have a unique combination of properties that materials researchers seek for their own creations. They're strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT res...

BU scientists find electrostimulation can improve working memory in people

8:45pm, 12th April, 2019

Humans

BU scientists find electrostimulation can improve working memory in people

(Boston University) In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Neuroscience, Boston University researchers demonstrate that electrostimulation can improve the working memory of people in their 70s so that their performance on memory tasks is indis...

Robot-guided video game gets older adults learning and working together

6:03pm, 18th March, 2019

Humans

Robot-guided video game gets older adults learning and working together

(Vanderbilt University) The game isn't about talking robots or colorful books. It's about getting seniors in the early stages of dementia out of their rooms, moving their bodies and, most importantly, working together.

UTA researcher working to determine minimum energy use possible in lasers

8:36pm, 7th March, 2019

Physics

UTA researcher working to determine minimum energy use possible in lasers

(University of Texas at Arlington) Weidong Zhou, an electrical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, will use a $450,000 grant from the Army Research Office to determine the minimum amount of energy required to develop high-s...