Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Barely an hour passes at the Ottobock repair shop in Cortina without another Paralympic athlete dropping off a damaged piece of kit to be repaired. It could be a wheelchair, a ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX is one of the most anticipated anime shows of the spring 2025 season, and new preorders for various figures from the series are now open on Amazon. This joint production ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, a patchwork of sanctions, payment failures, and licensing gaps pushes people into piracy networks. In the Middle East, piracy is illegal in countries with ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services released a new set of dietary guidelines last month, with a message to "eat real food." At a Jan. 7 White House press ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

The findings, published in Personality and Individual Differences, show that people with strong ADHD symptoms, such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that can impair some aspects of daily ...

The Department of Agriculture has released new dietary guidelines and a new food pyramid. The updated recommendations suggest larger quantities of protein and healthy fats while minimizing grains.