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Biologists and conservationists are too eager to demonize non-native species.
What does a normally aging brain look like? Are diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s inevitable?
Looking for a more realistic way to study memory, we turned to place cells—a network of cells that record a rat’s memory of an environment. Each place cell would fire only when the rat was in one particular location in space, creating a map as the
Long-term potentiation (LTP), discovered in the 1970s, was later shown to be the molecular basis of memory. Since many diseases of aging affect memory, could memory formation and storage be altered by the same mechanisms in normal aging and diseased
Early on, researchers had learned that the hippocampus was the structure in the brain where long-term memories were created and stored, but it was not known whether the different cell types within this structure might be more or less susceptible to t
In matriarchal societies where women receive equal education, there is no difference in spatial abilities between men and women.
A shorebird flies into the teeth of the massive hurricane that hit the US East Coast…and lives to tell about it.
Earlier this month (August 13-14) thousands of children and bug-loving adults descended on the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, where all manner of insect—dead, alive, and deep fried—were on display to be looked at, touched and, yes...eat
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