Overloading working memory makes adults behave like children.
Overloading adults’ working memory causes them to behave like children, with similar attention problems.
Topic
Biology
A collection of 370 issues
Super recognisers focus on key facial features for better identification
Super recognisers excel by focusing on key facial features, research shows.
Study links altered sensory processing in psychosis to spinal cord.
Individuals with psychotic disorders process self-generated sensations differently, affecting their sense of self, a new study finds.
Heated tobacco as harmful as cigarettes: study
Heated tobacco products cause similar gut and vascular damage as cigarettes, challenging claims of reduced harm.
Scalable human kidney organoids for transplants
Human kidney organoids successfully transplanted into pigs, paving the way for new transplant therapies.
Bird flu virus survives in certain cheeses
Bird flu virus (H5N1) can survive in raw-milk cheese even after 120 days of aging at 39°F (3.8°C), posing a potential risk to consumers.
Chronic stress accelerates kidney disease
Chronic stress fuels kidney disease by boosting cortisol and oxidative stress, per a new review.
Orcas hunt juvenile great white sharks by flipping them upside down
Orcas in Gulf of California hunt juvenile great white sharks by flipping them upside down to eat their livers.
CBD worsens cannabis effects in schizophrenia patients
A study found that CBD worsened memory and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia patients using cannabis.
Exercise-induced orgasms studied in-depth.
Study reveals exercise-induced orgasms often start in childhood, are felt internally, and can be part of sexual life.