Good news for everyone. Researchers at Temple University announced this week that they completely eliminated a dormant strain of HIV embedded in human cells with a kind of “molecular scissors,” raising hopes that science is a little closer to not only suppressing but actually curing the virus that causes AIDS. […]
A new study published in Learning and Memory found that simple repetition interferes with the ability to learn new information, especially when it is similar to a set of familiar facts. This may mean that memorizing facts about an issue through repetition could interfere with the ability to remember a more nuanced version of […]
The way most students study makes no sense. That’s the conclusion of Washington University in St. Louis psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel — who’ve spent a combined 80 years studying learning and memory, and recently encapsulated their findings with novelist Peter Brown in the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. […]
Scientists claim to have found an ‘on-off’ switch in our brain that can bring people in and out of consciousness. Dr Mohamad Koubeissi and his team from George Washington University studied an epileptic patient and found that electrical impulses of a specific region sent her to ‘sleep’ on repeated occasions. […]
