Tower Blocks is a Chrome extension that has a description of "Tower Blocks. Try to build the highest tower ". What it does not indicate, though, is that every 180 minutes it will connect to a remote ...

Throughout our waking lives we are exposed to a continuous stream of stimuli and experiences. Some of these experiences trigger the strengthening of connections between neurons in the brain, and begin ...

Everyone has done something they probably want to forget—falling face first on the stage at your high school graduation or asking a woman how far along she is only to find out she isn't even pregnant.

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in the world, but current anti-depressants have yet to meet the needs of many patients. Neuroscientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) ...

At last, we’ve seen what might be the primary building blocks of memories lighting up in the brains of mice. But without a way of mapping the activity of a large number of these individual neurons, ...

During consolidation, the brain produces new proteins that strengthen fragile memory traces. However, if a new experience occurs while an existing memory trace is being consolidated, the new stimuli ...