Fatty acids can help children in exams and improve their behaviour in class and at home, a study suggests.
Overweight children who took fatty acid dietary supplements showed dramatic improvements in concentration, reading, memory and mental agility. The advances that their brains made in three months would normally take three years, [...]
What Credit Card Companies Don’t Want You to Know
by David Bach
Of all the games the credit card companies play that end up costing you thousands of dollars (late fees, over-limit fees, transfer fees, and so on), it’s always been the interest rate game that hurt the most — until now.
There’s a new, completely legal game [...]
A small US study suggests that surgeons who played video games have better keyhole surgery skills than those that did not.
The study was performed by US scientists at Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York and is published in this month’s issue of the Archives of Surgery.
The researchers did the study because although [...]
At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a donut-shaped MRI machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers, or choosing which of two buttons to press.They have no inkling that scientists in the next room are trying to read their minds — using a brain scan to [...]
A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware–a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights–Manu Kumar, a [...]
