Recent evidence shows that people who thrive at night have higher IQs. Early risers beg to differ
Are you the type who stays up late to finish your work, or do you get up early to make a fresh start on the day? If it's the former, you may be pleased to learn new research has found that those with higher IQs tend to be nocturnal night-owls. But if it's the latter, you might have good reason to distrust the claim.
The human body—especially the brain—may be the final frontier for hackers. The same curiosity that drives users to open applications, see what makes them tick, and then improve or repurpose them is even more relevant for the brain. Equipment to monitor the brain and its responses is expensive, limiting research into BCIs (brain-to-computer interfaces) to academia and medical research.
You might think it's obvious that one person is smarter than another.
But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there's not even agreement among researchers about what this word actually means. Unlike weight and height, which are unambiguous, there is no absolute measure of intelligence, just as there are no absolute measures of honesty or physical fitness.
A person's mind is his or her castle. While the workings of a distant star or galaxy can be probed with precision, what goes on within the grey jelly that lies inside our skulls is - or has been until now - profoundly unknowable to the outside world.
But in the past few years, a series of fascinating and shocking experiments have started to breach those castle walls.
Researchers led by Dr. William J. Tyler, an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University has developed a novel technology that implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. The technology has a spatial resolution approximately five times greater than transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and can exert its effects upon subcortical brain circuits deep within the brain.
Walking at one’s own pace for 40 minutes three times a week can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, combat declines in brain function associated with aging, and increase performance on cognitive tasks, researchers have found.
Nowadays, people have been considering using solar panels as a means of acquiring energy needed to run their appliances at home. So many ways of replacing the traditional electricity we get from producers are coming now that the environment is slowly suffering from all things humans do to sustain development.
It has become a problem for nations to make amends just so they can save the environment and be able to produce the things people use on a daily basis at the same time.
Loyola University researchers have identified the key components of a protein called TRIM5a that destroys HIV in rhesus monkeys.
The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University Health System. Campbell and colleagues report their findings in an article featured on the cover of the Sept. 15, 2010 issue of the journal Virology, now available online.
Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may be just two decades away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near.
HP Labs principal research scientist Vinay Deolalikar has posted what he claims is a solution to what is widely known as the P versus NP problem.
