Month: September 2024

Varying Mental Tasks Boosts Memory by 75 Percent

We’ve heard that variety is the spice of life, and now a new study finds that it also may be the key to supercharge learning and enhance working memory for people over the age of 60. Researchers discovered that varied practice, not repetition, primed older adults to learn a… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

Published on September 16, 2024

Researchers test ChatGPT, other AI models against real-world students

An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical and health informatics course. The models scored higher than as many as three quarters of the real-world students in the class. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for […]

Published on September 16, 2024

Scientists Find Microplastics Breathed Into Brain

For the first time, scientists have detected microscopic microplastics lodged in the human brain.Researchers in Germany and Brazil say that 8 out of 15 autopsied adults had microplastics detected within their brain’s smell centers, the olfactory bulb.The particles were… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of […]

Published on September 16, 2024