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Toddlers prefer winners -- but avoid those who win by force
3:08pm, 7th September, 2018

Toddlers prefer winners -- but avoid those who win by force

(Aarhus University) Toddlers aged just 1 1/2 years prefer individuals whom other people yield to. It appears to be deeply rooted in human nature to seek out those with the highest social status. This motive might have evolved because being close to h...
This is how the brain forgets on purpose
8:54am, 7th September, 2018

This is how the brain forgets on purpose

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Researchers have analysed what happens in the brain when humans want to voluntarily forget something. They identified two areas of the brain -- the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus -- whose activity patterns are characte...
Stress wracks worm nerves, leaving lasting memories
10:41pm, 6th September, 2018

Stress wracks worm nerves, leaving lasting memories

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Scientists stunted the puberty of male worms by starving them before they underwent sexual maturation. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, the scientists suggested that...
ICESat-2 scientists to investigate icy mysteries
1:09pm, 6th September, 2018

ICESat-2 scientists to investigate icy mysteries

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) ICESat-2 scientists to investigate icy mysteriessoon after NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, launches on Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, it will start collect...